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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X, list of scientific terms with Scottish connections).
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SYMEA. Bot. A genus of Liliaceae from Chile (1871 Baker in W. W. Saunders Refugium Bot. IV. 260).
[From John T. Boswell Syme (1822–88), of Edinburgh, botanist and physician.]
