Genera within a family
a-, = intensive (very much);
spaleis = pass. part. of stello;
stello = get ready; to fit oneself out; to be dressed, decked.
aspalathos, = a scented shrub.
(What plant is referred to in the early quotations is not certainly known. Johnson gives as his first definition, ‘A plant called the rose of Jerusalem or our lady’s rose.’)
(LS, Ox)
spaleis = pass. part. of stello;
stello = get ready; to fit oneself out; to be dressed, decked.
aspalathos, = a scented shrub.
(What plant is referred to in the early quotations is not certainly known. Johnson gives as his first definition, ‘A plant called the rose of Jerusalem or our lady’s rose.’)
(LS, Ox)
For Harry Bolus F.L.S. (1834 – 1911),** English-born South African botanist, businessman, and founder of the Cape Town Bolus Herbarium, Fellow of the Linnean Society, and member and president of the South African Philosophical Society (later the Royal Society of South Africa). He bequeathed his library, his extensive herbarium and most of his fortune to the South African College for which he also founded a chair of botany.
-afra, = pertaining to Africa.
(Ch, BL)
-afra, = pertaining to Africa.
(Ch, BL)
lotos, = lotus.
The term lotos used by Theophrastus** for the legendary fruit eaten by the lotophagi, which produced forgetfulness and dreamy contentment.
The Greek lotus, a kind of clover or trefoil, on which horses fed.
The Cyrenean lotus or jujube, an African shrub, the fruit of which was eaten by certain tribes on the coast, hence called Lotophagi; the fruit was honey-sweet, in size as large as the olive, and in taste resembling the date.
The Egyptian lotus, the lily of the Nile.
There was also a lotus-tree growing in Africa, distinguished by its hard, black wood, of which flutes were made; hence 'lotos' is used poetically , for a flute.
(LS, Le, LS)
The term lotos used by Theophrastus** for the legendary fruit eaten by the lotophagi, which produced forgetfulness and dreamy contentment.
The Greek lotus, a kind of clover or trefoil, on which horses fed.
The Cyrenean lotus or jujube, an African shrub, the fruit of which was eaten by certain tribes on the coast, hence called Lotophagi; the fruit was honey-sweet, in size as large as the olive, and in taste resembling the date.
The Egyptian lotus, the lily of the Nile.
There was also a lotus-tree growing in Africa, distinguished by its hard, black wood, of which flutes were made; hence 'lotos' is used poetically , for a flute.
(LS, Le, LS)
For James Sutherland (1639-1719).**
(Ch)
(Ch)
Combination of two generic names LOTUS (q.v.) + ONONIS.
onos, = an ass; something useful.
“In the 4th century B.C., Theophrastus** produced the first botanical description of restharrow. In the first century A.D., Dioscorides and Pliny described the use of the plant as a remedy for urinary complaints and stones. In the later writings of Roman antiquity, Galen referred to the effect of ononis on increasing urine flow and decreasing the size of urinary stones. Lonicerus wrote: “This herb is the most excellent of stone-herbs which flushes out the stone and urine in man and animals, which is why it is also called stone-root.”
(http://www.avogel.ch/en/plant-encyclopaedia/ononis_spinosa.php)
(Le)
onos, = an ass; something useful.
“In the 4th century B.C., Theophrastus** produced the first botanical description of restharrow. In the first century A.D., Dioscorides and Pliny described the use of the plant as a remedy for urinary complaints and stones. In the later writings of Roman antiquity, Galen referred to the effect of ononis on increasing urine flow and decreasing the size of urinary stones. Lonicerus wrote: “This herb is the most excellent of stone-herbs which flushes out the stone and urine in man and animals, which is why it is also called stone-root.”
(http://www.avogel.ch/en/plant-encyclopaedia/ononis_spinosa.php)
(Le)