> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 912](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33121043) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/20032151-1) LSID 20032151-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3219242) QID Q3219242 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### 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.