Auguste Charlois who discovered 317 Roxane named for Roxana from what area
Roxana Roxana (Ancient Greek: Ῥωξάνη ; Old Iranian "Raoxshna"; sometimes Roxanne, Roxanna, Roxandra and Roxane) was a Sogdian princess of Bactria and a wife of the Greek Macedonian king, Alexander the Great. She was born in c. 340 BC though the precise date remains uncertain and died in c. 310 BC.
Dominique Villars His main work is "Histoire des plantes du Dauphiné" published between 1786 and 1789, in which about 2,700 species (particularly alpine plants) are described, after over twenty years of observation in the Dauphiné region of southeastern France. His herbarium and botanical manuscripts are preserved at the Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Grenoble.