NOTE ON THE HISTORY OF CLIFTONIA 288 
gardens by John Fraser at the time of one of his last voyages to 
America, and flowered in 1812 or 1818 in his nursery at Sloane 
Sq in London.” Fraser, however, had it in cultivation some 
his fourth journey in 1790, and there is a specimen i b, 
Banks labelled ‘Hort. Kew. 1798.” In this list it stands as 
‘‘ Walteriana, nova genera, a very beautiful evergreen shrub;” in 
Fraser’s list issued in 1796 as “ Walteriana, a beautiful evergreen 
Shrub, a new Genus, called after Mr. Walter, not in the possession 
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Fraser’s sons, who succeeded him in the business, it appears among 
the “plants at reduced prices” as “‘ Walteriana Caroliniensis ’— a 
name misquoted by Mr. Sargent as ‘ Waltheria caroliniensis.” 
Walteriana the plant seems to have been widely distributed. 
Fr in 
synonym may have its use; and we embrace with pleasure the only 
opportunity afforded us of complying, in some degree, wi e Wish 
of the discoverer, in making it the means of recording his grateful 
attachment to his botanical friend.” The name Walteriana was 
published without description. Cliftonia was published by Joseph 
Gaertner (De Fructibus, iii. 246, 1805) as of 
tione Banksiana;” the Solander MSS. and Banksian herbarium 
show that it should rather have been attributed to Solander (as is 
rightly done by Nuttall, Sylva, ii. 92), in whose hand the name and 
description are written. ere are Six specimens on one Banksian 
sheet: ‘‘1. Florida occidentalis prope Pensacolam, W. Clifton” 
(after whom the genus was named); “2. Florida orientalis, J. 
Bartram’’; ‘*3. Carolina, Fraser”; ‘‘4. Georgia, W. Bartram ” 
‘5. America septentr. M. Marshall;”’ “6. Hort. Kew. 1798.” 
unfortunately—decided upon at the recent Congress, necessitates 
a monotypic genus, but natural enough when proposed by Lamarck 
in the compound-leaved genus in which he placed the plant, the 
flowers of which were unknown to him. 
William Bartram, as Nuttall points out, described Cliftonia (as 
‘‘a new shrub of great beauty and singularity’) in his Travels, p. 31 
(1793). In the volume of his drawings in the Department of 
otany there ig a description and a figure (p. 71) of the plant 
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