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or is this the end of the story, so far as names for this palm 
are eee The name Sabai Adansonii stuck to it pretty 
well for nearly a century. Then the name of some Jamaican 
1 Christiaan Hendrik Persoon was born in 1755 at the Cape of Good Hop 
son of a Dutch father = a aueney mother. He went to 0 Holland i in ies 
d studied medici eid i it to provide 
for his simple needs, se eis himself for many years to the study of 
plants and especially of fungi, for pure love of scientific work. He lived in 
several German university towns, but ve no official co nection with any of 
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home was at Géttingen. About 1800 i. went to Paris, hoping to benefit 
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ceased with the separation of Holland and Belgium in 1830, and Persoon 
was reduced to extreme poverty before his death, which occurred at Paris, 
17 February 1837.—J. H. B. 
2Synopsis Plantarum 1: 399. 1805. 
8 William Baldwin, was born in Newl hip, Chester County, Pennsy}- 
vania, 29 March 1779. He visited China as eon on a merchant vessel 
in 1805, and received his medical degree from University of Pennsylvania 
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botanist to Long’s ene ion up ae Maa: os “ied at Franklin, Missouri, 
1 September 1819.—J. H. B. 
* Reliquiae Baldwinianae 334, 1843. 
