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Henry de Ponthieu
Henry
de
Ponthieu
was a
London
merchant
of
Huguenot
ancestry
who
collected
fish
and
plant
specimens
from
the West
Indies
for
botanist
Joseph Banks
. The
orchid
genus
Ponthieva
was named by botanist
Robert Brown
in his
honour
.