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### Author
Incarville, Pierre Nicolas le Chéron, called d'Incarville (1706-1757), French Jesuit, teacher at Québec 1730-1739, missionary at Peking 1740-1757, botanist and sinologist.
**Abbreviated name**: *Incarv.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Incarv.*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection P|P]]-JU (149 species from Peking, 144 from Maçao), and [[Collection P|P]]. – A manuscript French-Chinese dictionary is at the Bibliothèque nationale.
*Ref*.: Incarville, Mém. Soc. imp. Naturalistes Moscou 3: 122-128. 1812,4: 26-48. 1812 (list of plants collected in China).
- Bretschneider, J. North China Branch Roy. Asiat. Soc. 1880.
- Franchet, Bull. Soc. bot. France 29: 2-13. 1882 (on I's Chinese plants in P-JU).
- Forbes, J. Bot. 21: 9-15. 1883.
#### Bibliography and biography
Backer p. 284; Barnhart 2: 230; Bret. p. 46-56; CSP 3: 493; Dryander 1: 252, 3: 584; IH 2: 300; Lasègue p. 316, 434, 503; MW p. 207-208; PR 4434; Rehder 3: 272.
- Decaisne, J., Cat. bibl. Jussieu 1857 (no. 3927 by A. Gaubil, see Lacroix p. 116).
- Guillamin, A., Les fleurs des Jardins, Paris xli. 1929.
- Keefe, Biologist 48(3/4): 52. 1966.
- Lacroix, Figures de Savants 4: 138-140. 1938.
- Stafleu, F. A., Intr. Jussieu Gen. Pl. xxxi. 1964 (plants P-JU).
#### Eponymy
*Incarvillea* A. L. Jussieu (1789).