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### Author
Garcin, Laurent (1683-1752), Dutch army physician who travelled in Flanders, Spain and Portugal and made three trips to the East Indies, India, Ceylon, Arabia and Persia between 1720 and 1729.
**Abbreviated name**: *Garcin* \[standard form in IPNI: *Garcin*\]
#### Herbarium and types
The original herbarium is said to be destroyed (Bridel, Steenis-Kruseman), but several sets of specimens collected by Garcin are at [[Collection G|G]] (in the Burman herbarium) and at [[Collection L|L]]. A number of Swiss plants are at [[Collection BM|BM]] (via the Earl of Bute and Lambert).
*Ref*.: IH 2: 216; Lasègue p. 66.
- Steenis-Kruseman, Fl. males. ser. I. 1: 185-186. 1950.
- Miller, Taxon 19: 524. 1970.
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 2: 29; HA 2: 223; PR p. 116.
- Dryander, Cat. bibl. hist. nat. Banks 5: 246 \[index\]. 1800.
- Bridel, Biographie de Laurent Garcin, ed. 2. 1857.
- Backer, Verkl. woordenb. 228. 1936.
- Briquet, Bull. Soc. Bot. Suisse 50a: 233-235. 1940.
- Steenis-Kruseman, Fl. males. ser. I. 1: 185-186. 1950.