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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X, list of scientific terms with Scottish connections).
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DALRYMPELEA. Bot. A plant of the family Staphyleaceae or bladder-nut (1814 W. Roxburgh Plants Coromandel III. 75), also called Turpinia, of Eastern India.
[After Alexander Dalrymple (1737–1808), of Edinburgh, hydrographer in India.]