Genus Shutereia
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For Dr James Shuter (1775–1826), Irish assistant surgeon and government naturalist and botanist at Madras. In 1800, he obtained an MD from Edinburgh University. In 1809, he went to Madeira, and to Madras, India, and in 1819 began work in the service of the East India Company (effectively the government). While there, he received a written request for Indian plant specimens, and even though he was ill, he was entrusted with a valuable collection of Materia Medica of India, many of the seeds and roots of which were in fine condition. These were presented to professor of botany at Edinburgh, Robert Graham (1786–1784), by Sir Thomas Munro, governor of Madras. Some of these specimens were probably sent to William J Hooker, thus increasing the already fine collection of tropical plants in the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew. Shuter died in Dorset, England, in 1826.