Dregea Floribunda
''Dregea'' is a genus of vines in the Apocynaceae, established by Ernst Meyer in 1838. It is native to southern Africa, Yemen and eastern Asia from China to Sulawesi. Description As given in Flora of British India, Vol. 4 (1883): :"Twining shrubs, glabrous or hoary. Leaves opposite, ovate or cordate, acuminate. Cymes axillary, umbelliform; flowers green. Sepals small. Corolla rotate, lobes broad, overlapping to the right. Coronal scales 5, hemispheric, fleshy, adnate to the column, spreading, inner angle cuspidate, the tooth incumbent on the anthers. Column very short, fleshy; anther-tips short inflexed ; pollen-masses one in each cell, cylindric-ohlong, shortly pedicelled, waxy, erect. Stigma conical or dome-shaped. Follicles thick, hard, winged or ribbed. Seeds comose." Species , Plants of the World Online accepted the following species: * '' Dregea arabica'' Decne., syn. ''Marsdenia robusta'' – Socotra, mainland Yemen * ''Dregea cuneifolia ''Dregea'' is a genus of vines i ...
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Ernst Heinrich Friedrich Meyer
Ernst Heinrich Friedrich Meyer (1 January 1791 – 7 August 1858) was a German botanist and botanical historian. Born in Hanover, he lectured in Göttingen and in 1826 became a professor of botany at the University of Königsberg, as well as Director of the Botanical Garden. His botanical specialty was the Juncaceae, or family of rushes. His major work was the four-volume ''Geschichte der Botanik'' (“History of Botany,” 1854–57). His history covered ancient authorities such as Aristotle and Theophrastus, explored the beginnings of modern botany in the context of 15th- and 16th-century intellectual practice, and offered a wealth of biographical data on early modern botanists. Julius von Sachs pronounced him “no great botanist” but admitted that he “possessed a clever and cultivated intellect.” He died in Königsberg, East Prussia. In 1828,