Clintonia is a genus of flowering plants first described as a genus in 1818.
 It is distributed across North America and eastern Asia where it is found as an understory plant in woodlands.
 It was named after De Witt Clinton, an 18th-century botanist and U.S. politician.
Jacob de Witt, "heer van Manezee, Melissant and Comstryen" (born 7 February 1589 in Dordrecht – died 10 January 1674 in Dordrecht) was a burgomaster of Dordrecht and the son of a timber merchant.
 He was also a younger brother of Andries de Witt and the father of Johan and Cornelis de Witt.
De Witt Clinton Badger (August 7, 1858 – May 20, 1926) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio and the 36th mayor of Columbus, Ohio.
De Witt Park Historic District is a national historic district located at Ithaca in Tompkins County, New York.
 The district consists of 45 contributing buildings, one contributing site (De Witt Park, known as Town Square until 1869), and three contributing objects.
 It includes the area developed by the town's founder, Simon De Witt, in the early 19th century.
 The district includes the separately listed Boardman House and Second Tompkins County Courthouse.
Johan de Witt Jr., heer van Zuid- en Noord-Linschoten, Snelrewaard and IJsselveere (1662–1701) was the son of Johan de Witt and his wife Wendela Bicker (1635-1668).
 Having been part of the old Dutch patrician De Witt family, De Witt Jr. took a seat as secretary of the city of Dordrecht.
Johan de Witt or Jan de Witt, "heer van Zuid- en Noord-Linschoten, Snelrewaard, Hekendorp and IJsselveere" (24 September 1625 – 20 August 1672) was a key figure in Dutch politics in the mid-17th century, when its flourishing sea trade in a period of globalisation made the United Provinces a leading European power during the Dutch Golden Age.
 De Witt controlled the Netherlands political system from around 1650 until shortly before his death in 1672, working with various factions from nearly all the major cities, especially his hometown, Dordrecht, and the hometown of his wife, Amsterdam.
Cleyera is a plant genus consisting of 18 species of tender, evergreen shrubs to small trees, mostly native to Mexico and Central America, and one from Eastern Asia.
 In the APG III system it is placed in the family Pentaphylacaceae.
Clintonia borealis (commonly blue-bead lily or Clintonia, also Clinton's lily, corn Lily, cow tongue, yellow beadlily, yellow bluebeadlily, snakeberry, dogberry, and straw lily), is a perennial forest plant found in eastern North America.
 "Clintonia borealis" is named in honor of former New York senator and governor, DeWitt Clinton.
 It was once classified within the genus "Convallaria".
Henriette Guizot de Witt (1829 in Paris – 1908 in Paris), the daughter of the historian and politician François Guizot and the wife of Conrad de Witt, was a French writer who wrote under the name Mme de Witt, née Guizot; to support family finances she composed some one hundred novels and educational texts of moralized history, such as "Légendes et récits pour la jeunesse" (1876), "Scènes historiques" (five series, 1875-85), "Les chroniques de l'histoire de France jusqu'au XIVe siècle" (4 volumes 1882-85).
 She also translated Shakespeare and Charles Dickens into French.
De Witt Clinton Flanagan (December 28, 1870, New York City – January 15, 1946, Utica, New York) was an American Democratic Party politician from New Jersey who represented the 4th congressional district from 1902 to 1903.

Question: Which plant genus, Cleyera or Clintonia was named after De Witt Clinton?
Answer: Clintonia