page_title: John Kirk (explorer)
section_title: Botany
hierarchical_section_title: John Kirk (explorer) / Other interests / Botany
caption_attribution_description: English: Ochna kirkii
context_page_description: Sir John Kirk, GCMG, KCB, FRS was a Scottish physician, naturalist, companion to explorer David Livingstone, and British administrator in Zanzibar, where he was instrumental in ending the slave trade in that country.
context_section_description: He was a keen botanist throughout his life and published many papers from his findings in East Africa. He was highly regarded by successive directors of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: William Hooker, Joseph Dalton Hooker and William Turner Thiselton-Dyer.
  He introduced a very distinct and pretty species of orchid to the United Kingdom, subsequently named Angraecum scottianum.
caption: Ochna kirkii
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