184 CITAPTER 40. 
a tranfcript from one of his letters, written 
to a friend, labouring under the preffure of 
adverfe fortune 5 which feems to confirm 
this idea 
* If in the commemoration of celebrated men, by the 
Application of their names to new genera^ any compara- 
tive dignity, or fymbolical allufion, was ever to be ob- 
ferved, it became in the higheft degree decent, that to 
iDiLLENius fhoiild be appropriated one of the moll 
fplendid of the vegetable race. Linnjeus had unquef- 
tionably this analogy in view, when he gave to this illuf- 
trious botanift the Syalita of the Malabar Garden a 
Polyandrous Tree^ diftinguiflied for its beautiful large 
flowers and fine fruit, and not lefs for its confidcrable u(e 
ifl medicinal and occonomical purpofes. 
C H A P* 
