Genus Humea
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For Lady Amelia Hume (née Egerton) (1751–1809), English amateur botanist, wife of Sir Abraham Hume, floriculturalist and Tory politician. In 1790 she took lessons in botany from Sir James Smith, president of the Linnaean Society. She developed their large garden at Wurmleybury, significantly incorporating an extensive range of stoves, hothouses and greenhouses, while Sir Abraham used his connections with the East India Company to obtain plants from South Africa, China and India. Some of the plants introduced were Jasminum hirsutum from India, Magnolia coco from China (1786) and Camellia japonica (1806) also known as ‘Lady Hume’s Blush’, later called ‘Incarnatata’. It was the last plant Lady Hume introduced before she died after a long and painful illness.