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### Author
Kamel, Georg Joseph (Georgius Josephus Camellus, Camel, Camelli) (1661-1706), Moravia born Jesuit (lay brother) missionary and pharmacist in the Phillippines.
**Abbreviated name**: *Kamel* \[standard form in IPNI: *Kamel*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection BM|BM]]-SL. Manuscripts and drawings at [[Collection BM|BM]], Louvain and the Institut de France.
*Ref*.: IH 2: 339; SK 1: xxxii, 271-272, 5: ccxci.
- Dandy, J. E., The Sloane herbarium 145-148. 1958.
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 2: 268; BM 2: 956; Bret. p. 15; Dryander 2: 31, 340, 504, 3: 182, 200, 479, 4: 72; Frank 3 (Anh.): 49; Lasègue p. 495, 506; NI 1021; PR 4586 (ed. 1: 5129); Rehder 5: 445.
- Anon., *in* Brockhaus' Conversations-Lexikon ed. 13. 10: 42-43. 1885.
- Forman, Kew Bulletin 1955: 264.
- Gicklhorn, J. and R., Veröff. Int. Ges. Gesch. Pharmacie 4: 1-123. 1954 (*14 pl.*); Jahrb. Univ. Düsseldorf 1970/71: 301-307. 1971.
- Keefe, Biologist 47(3/4): 50. 1966.
- Winter, Jardins de France 1974 (2): 13-15.
#### Handwriting
Dandy, J. E., The Sloane herbarium 1958, p. 246 and no. 79.
#### Eponymy (genera)
*Camellia* Linnaeus (1753); *Camelliastrum* Nakai (1940); (journals): *Camellia Review*. A publication of the Southern California Camellia Society. Pasadena, Cal. Vol. 12-X. 1950-x; *Camellia Society Bulletin*. Pasadena, Cal. Vol. 1-11. 1940-1950; *Camellian* (South Carolina Camellia Society). Columbia, S.C. Vol. i-x. 1950-x; *Camellias* (American Camellia Society). Gainesville, Fl. Vol. i-x. 1960-x.
### Publications
##### n.3496. Herbarium
**Title**
*Herbarium* aliarumque stirpium in insula Luzone *Philippinarum primaria nascenticum syllabus, in* Ray, J., *Historiae plantarum* tomus tertius, App. 1-96. London 1704. Fol. (doubles).
**Abbreviated title**: *Herb. Philipp.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1704, p. 1-96. *Copies*: NY, UC. – For further details see under J. Ray. – The accompanying unpublished plates ("Camellis" in Jussieu, Gen. pl.) were in the hands of A. L. Jussieu. Linnaeus (Bibl. bot. ed. 2. 156. 1751) referred to the 1704 publication as "Descriptiones imperfectae, florum nulla notitia," an inexplicable statement; see further Dandy (1958).