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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X, list of scientific terms with Scottish connections).
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HOPEA. Bot. 1. A genus of widely distributed shrubs and trees of the family Symploceae, so called by Linnaeus, now gen. Symplocus.
2. A genus of large resinous trees of India, order Dipterocarpus (1819 W. Roxburgh Plants Coromandel III. 9), now called Hancea.
[After John Hope (1725–86), of Edinburgh, Professor of Botany in Edinburgh University, who was the first to teach the Linnaean system.]
