New Genera of American Plants

Melchior Adam a 17th-century German biographer.

...presented me. He died in Tübingen on May 10, 1566, at the age of 65. He wrote the Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants original: "Historiâ stirpium Commentarios insignes": published in Basel, 1542, in folio a large book format made by folding sheets of paper once.

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RONDELETIA

Plate 12.

Rondeletia a genus of flowering plants in the coffee family, Rubiaceae is a genus of plant with a single-petaled original: "monopetalo" flower (A), salver-shaped original: "hypocrateriformi"; a flower with a long narrow tube that opens into a flat, spreading top, tubular, and sitting upon the calyx (C). This calyx later develops into a somewhat round fruit (D), crowned, with two capsules (E), and filled with tiny seeds (F).

I know only one species of Rondeletia.

Tree-like Rondeletia, with the appearance of Tinus referring to the Viburnum tinus or Laurustinus.

Tournefort, Institutions of Botany, 31.

Guillaume Rondelet was born in Montpellier on September 27, 1507. Excelling in the art of medicine, he composed a famous work on fishes and the nature of fishes, but he also applied the greatest effort to identifying and discovering simples herbal remedies made from a single plant, and in this he excelled greatly, being the first in Montpellier to lecture on Dioscorides. It appears he wrote more on Dioscorides, according to the letters of Gessner to J. Bauhin, published by C. Bauhin. He died as Chancellor of the School of Montpellier in 1566.

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TURNERA

Plate 12.

Turnera a genus of flowering plants in the passionflower family, Passifloraceae is a genus of plant with a single-petaled flower (A), funnel-shaped and many-cleft divided into many segments; from its two-horned calyx (C) rises the pistil at the lowest part of the flower (B), fixed like a nail, which later develops into a nearly global or top-shaped fruit (D), opening in three directions (E), and filled with roundish seeds (F) attached to thin filaments, as if to a placenta the part of the plant ovary where the seeds are attached.

I have seen one species of Turnera.

Shrubby Turnera, with an elm-leaf.

John Ray, History of Plants.

William Turner, an Englishman, Doctor of Medicine, a man of solid erudition and judgment, published a History of the Plants of England in 1551, in which he mostly used the figures of Fuchs, and expressed the names in Latin, Greek, English, German, and French, following an alphabetical order.