Genus Flemingia
Pictures from Observations
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For John Fleming (1747–1829), English botanist and physician, member of the Indian Medical Service in Bengal, physician-general and president of the Bengal Medical Board, Fellow of the Royal and Linnaean Societies, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Horticultural Society, and author of Catalogue of Indian Medical Plants and Drugs (1810). He collected a large body of drawings done by native artists of Indian plants and sent specimens to Sir Joseph Banks for his collection. He worked for the Indian Medical Service from 1768 until his retirement in 1813, when he returned to England. He became a member of the Medico-Botanical Society of London and in 1818 was elected a member of parliament, a position he held for two years.