:monadelphia, ^7 



practice of distinguishing different genera of plants by 

 personal names, may have had its influence, how- 

 ever trifling, as an incentive to the pursuit of Botany j 

 and though no exception be made to it as a reward 

 for the ability or patronage of distinguished persons, 

 yet such names as Rudheckia, Rotbollia, and Holms- 

 kioldiay are very uncouth 3 bi\t an ^4mc/ia elcgantis- 

 simn, I hope, will one day or other palliate these harsh 

 sounds. 



ORDER / 



A'o British Plant of this Order, 



MAPLE-LEAVED PTEROSPERMUM is a na- ^^^jJ^jfCA^'- 



live of the East Indies, where it grows into a tree; 



the bark is covered with a white wool, as is the under 'miua.**** 

 side of the leaves. The flower is sweet-scented and 



resided at Paiis five j'ears, and then removed to Leyden, where 

 he took his degree of M. D. He next went to London, where 

 he formed an intimacy with some of the most learned of the 

 facuUy, and once more visited the West Indies, and fixed his 

 residence in Jamaica. In the year 1750 he published iiis Na- 

 tural and Civil History of Jamaica in folio, having the year be- 

 fore published a correct map of that island, diawn by himself. 

 He died at Rusbrook in Ireland in 1700. 



* This Older, though called Dodecavdriuy is chiefly com- 

 posed of flowers having fifteen sramina, 



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