Description:
Plant descriptions for the thesis "Nova plantarum genera", defended on [15] June 1747, by C M Dassow (1719-1751).
The dissertation was an account of 43 new genera of plants later included in "Genera plantarum" (ed. 5, 1754). Includes "Corollarium continens nova, in morbis specifica dicta medicamenta, ex Tr. de Plantis Coldinghamensibus in Provincia Noveboracensi Americes conscr. 1742 a Codwald Colden. [by Cadwallader Colden]", a commentary on chapter 12 of Linnaeus' Fundamenta botanica (1736).
In this draft, the genera are numbered 1041 to 1052, but not in the order they were published in.
They include:
1041. Mussaenda
1042. Nama
1043. Allophylus
1044. Mimusops
1045. Jambolifera
1046. Memecylon
1047. Bartramia
1048. Microcos
1049. Delima
1050. Elaeocarpus
1051. Cambogia
1052. Uvaria
Title:
"Nova plantarum genera" draft
Author(s):
Carl von Linné 1707-1778