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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X, list of scientific terms with Scottish connections).
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BOSWELLIA. Bot. A genus of incensebearing shrubs, Burseraceae, found in India, Persia, Arabia and Africa (1795 W. Roxburgh Plants Coromandel III. 207).

[Named after John Boswell of Auchinleck (1710–60), uncle of Johnson's biographer and curator of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh.]