Humboldtia

Ruits& Pavon ,Fl .Peruv. Prodr,(1794) , 109 ,t. 27 .

Pleurothallideae. III. Dedicated to the great German man of science , Friedrich Heinrich Alexander ,Baron von Humboldt (1769-1859), explorer and student of the natural history of the Spanish colonies of Middle and South America from 1799 to 1804 ; writer of many scientific works which profoundly affected every branch of science ; director of the official Russian expedition across the Russian Empire to China and back in 1829 ; author of " Kosmos" . his chief and most characteristic work ,which " gives a .....description of the numberless varities of forms which the world contains ,but this multitude it gather total views and represents the world as one consistent existence ."