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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X, list of scientific terms with Scottish connections).
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CHRISTISONIA. Bot. A genus of the family Orobanchaceae from Eastern India (1848 G. Gardner in Calcutta Jnl. Nat. Hist. VIII. 153).
[From Sir Robert Christison (1797–1882), of Edinburgh, Professor of Materia Medica at Edinburgh.]
