Species within a genus

After 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;
-anus, = belonging to, connected with, pertaining to, used to form adjectives from nouns, particularly from geographical and personal names.
(Ch, BL)

cape, = Cape of Good Hope;
-ensis, = indicates country or place of growth, or origin or else habitat.
(of the Cape region)
(BL, Co)

cucullus, = a covering; a cap, hood;
-atus, = indicates possession or likeness.
cucullatus, = hooded, having a hood.
(hooded)
(hooded – refers to the shape of the median sepal)
(ld, BL, Co)

palus, paludis, = a swamp, marsh, morass, bog, fen, pool;
-osus, = indicates abundance or full or marked development.
paludosus, = fenny boggy, marshy.
(refers to the habitat of the species)
(ld, BL, Co)

villus, = shaggy hair, a tuft of hair;
(long weak hairs)
-osus, = indicates abundance or full or marked development.
villosus, = hairy, shaggy, rough.
(villous, i.e. shaggy with fairly long soft straight not interwoven ascending hairs)
(refers to the hairy stems and leaves)
(ld, BL, Co)