Plumieri 5" I, 
On his return from his fecorid voyage, 
by the intereft of M. PoNXCHARTRAiNj 
he procured the firft fpecimea of his labours 
to be publiflied at the Louvre^ under the 
title of Defcription des Plant es de V Ame-^ 
rique'' Fol. 1695. pp. 94, tab. 108. The 
firft fifty of thefe tables reprefent Ferns 3 the 
remaindei-j divers fpecies of ih^Arum genus 3 
the Piper ^ Paffijiorcey Rajania^ Dolichos^ and 
various others. The figures confift of little 
more than outlines 5 but being as large as 
the life, and drawn with great accuracy and 
freedom, they have a very fine eifed:. The 
defcriptions are in French. 
On his return from the third voyage, he 
fettled at Paris, in the character of his or- 
der ^ and, in 1703, publilhed his Nova 
Plantarum Genera,'" 4°. In this work, 
which is conftrudled on the plan of Tour ne- 
fort's Inftitutions of Botany," the au- 
thor defcribes, and figures, the charadiers of 
106 vlqw genera 'y among which are many 
of the plants ufed in medicine. It is in 
this book he pays the tribute, fo often fpe- 
cified, not only to the manes of deceafed 
botanifts, but to feveral eminent men then 
E 2 living : 
