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V. Remarks on the Genera of Paderota, Wtdfenia, and Hemimen's. By 

 James Ed-ward Smith, M. D. F.R. S. P. L. S. 



Read OSiober 7, 1800. 



JL HE genus of Paderota was firft conftituted by Linnasus in his 

 Academical DifTertation entitled Planta rariores Africans, publifhed 

 at Upfal in 1760, and reprinted in the 6th volume of the Amcenitaies 

 Academka in 1763. In the former edition the genus was called He- 

 mimerisy in the latter Paderota, and the only fpecies there mentioned 

 bears the trivial name of bonce J^ei. This plant has never been well 

 known to botanifts in general. The original fpecimcn probably 

 remained in Profeflbr Burmann's hands, along with the other plants 

 defcribed in the above-mentioned differtation; but Linnxus, I know 

 not at what period, obtained another, which is preferved in his 

 herbarium with the name oib.fpei in his own hand, and which he 

 afterwards defcribed in the Suppkmentum as Hemimeris dijfufa. Un- 

 fortunately he negledlcd to quote Padcrota bonce fpei as a fynonym iri 

 that work, and his fon, with all the materials before him, totally 

 overlooked it; fo that Profeflbr Murray, and other compilers, give 

 us the fame plant under both names. Even M. De Juflieu feeni& 

 not to have known this original fpecies of Pcsderota. His iileas of the 

 genus are taken from the Buonarotta ofMicheli, and the Pccdcroia 

 lutea of Scopoli, the former of which is referred to Piiderota by 

 Linnaeus in the 2d edition of Sp. Plant, by the name of P. Bimiarota, 

 and the latter is called in his 2d Mautijfa, P. ylgerlu. Thefe plants 

 appear ngain in the Suppkmentum, with new and Improved fpecific 

 charaders, under the names of P. carulea and P, lutea,. and their 



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