Species Grangea strigosa

Possibly for Nicholas Tourtechot-Granger (c 1680–1734), French physician and botanistgardener who worked at a Christian hospital in Tunis for several years and who had an interest in natural history. He returned to France in 1728, then in 1731 accompanied his friend Jean Pierre Pignon to Egypt, where the latter became French consul in Cairo. He travelled up the Nile to Aswan and documented monuments, plants, animals and minerals. In 1732 he was commissioned by King Louis XV to travel around the Middle East to gain natural history information. He visited Crete, Egypt again, Cyprus, Palestine and Syria but died en route two days’ march from Basra, either in 1734 or 1737. He was the author of Relation du Voyage Fait en Egypte, par le Sieur Granger, en L’année 1730, published in 1745. Derivation uncertain. He was also honoured with the genus Grangeria in the family Chrysobalanaceae.