Species within a genus

calcar, = a spur;
-atus, = indicates possession or likeness.
(spurred, thus short-spurred; hollow nectar-producing appendage of calyx or corolla)
(ld, BL)

parvus, = little, small, petty, puny, inconsiderable.
minor, = less, lesser, smaller, inferior.
minimus, =, very small, very little; least, smallest.
(smaller, inferior, lesser)

vireō, = to be green or verdant; to be fresh, vigorous or lively; to flourish, bloom;
virens,, = becoming green.
(ld, BL)

convallis, convallia,= a valley enclosed on all sides;
-alis, -aris, = belonging or pertaining to, resembling, provided with;
-oides, = like, resembling, having the form or nature of.
(ld, BL)

For Johann Franz (Jean Francois) Drège (1794-1881),** German plant collector and a botanical explorer and traveller who arrived in the Cape in 1826 with his brother Wilhelm Eduard to join his other brother Carl Friedrich who had come in 1821.
(Ch)

effero, elatus, = exalted, elevated, lofty, high.
(tall)
(ld, BL)

exuo, = to draw out or off, to pull or strip off, put off, divest;
exuviae, = that which is stripped, drawn or taken off;
-atus, = indicates possession or likeness.
(ld, BL)

filum, fili-, = a thread;
folium, = a leaf.
(thread-leaved)
(ld, BL)

Hesperus, = the spirit of the evening star, said to be the son or brother of Atlas;
(evening)
anthos, = a flower, the bloom of a flower.
(Pg, BL, LS)

medius, = that is in the middle or midst, mid, middle; of the middle, not very great or small, middling, medial, moderate.
(middle, that is midway between)
(ld, BL)

modestus, = keeping due measure, moderate.
(ld, BL)

For Terence Macleane Salter (1883-1969),** British botanist, traveler, Royal Navy paymaster who was stationed at Simonstown and remained in South Africa thereafter, worked at the Bolus Herbarium 1930-1960, prolific plant collector in South Africa, co-editor of The Genus Oxalis in South Africa and Flora of the Cape Peninsula.
(Ch)