Genus Fleurya

For Camile Fleury, who was a merchant service apprentice on the Uranie, one of the two ships involved in the circumglobal expedition of 1817–1820 under Commander de Freycinet. Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré, botanist and author of the Fleurya genus was on board the Uranie. The results of this voyage were published under Freycinet’s supervision as the three-volume work Voyage autour du monde sur les corvettes Uranie et la Physicienne (1824–1844). Fleury was listed in this work as a member of the crew and was elevated to the rank of ensign during the course of the expedition. Some sources state after a JF Fleury, French botanist, author of Orchids of the environs of Rennes (1819), but this seems unlikely.