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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X, list of scientific terms with Scottish connections).
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MELVILLA. Bot. A specific name of the genus Cuphea from America (1824 J. Lindley in Bot. Reg. X. 852), also used as a name of the genus.
[After Robert Melville (1723–1809), of Monimail in Fife, Governor of the West Indies.]
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