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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X, list of scientific terms with Scottish connections).
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GOURLIEA. Bot. A genus of leguminous shrubs of Chile (1833 J. Gillies in Hooker Bot. Misc. III. 106).
[From Robert Gourlie (†1832), Scottish plant-collector in Chile.]
