Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X, list of scientific terms with Scottish connections).
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CRAIGIA. Bot. A Chinese shrub of the family Sterculiaceae, found in Yunnan (1921 Trans. Bot. Soc. Edb. XXVIII. 69).
[Called by W. W. Smith and W. Evans after William Craig of Edinburgh, President of the Edb. Botanical Soc.]
