Species within a genus

admirabilis, = worthy of admiration, admirable, wonderful.
(ld)

For Alice Marguerite Pegler (1861-1929),** teacher, painter and East Cape collector around the area of Kentani where she lived.
(Ch)

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

cystis, = the bladder, a bag, pouch;
cista, = a wooden box or basket, often woven of slips or twigs;
flos, floris, = a blossom, flower.
(CISTUS – rockrose)
(LS, ld, M)

For Elizabeth (‘Elsie’) Esterhuysen, (1912-2006)),** ‘the most outstanding collector ever of South African flora.’ (Prof. Karel Bremer); she amassed 36,000 herbarium collections, many high-altitude species, and was a botanist at the Bolus Herbarium.
(Ch)

glaber, glabra, = without hair, smooth, bald;
(glabrous; smooth, hairless)
pes, pedis, = a foot; the stalk or pedicle of a fruit, especially of the grape.
(a foot-like part or organ, peduncle)
(ld, BL)

hilaris, hilarus, = cheerful, of good cheer, lively, gay, blithe, merry, jocund, jovial.
(ld)

paucus, pauci, = few, a few, little;
flos, floris, = a blossom, flower.
(few-flowered)
(ld, BL)

For Adrian Slack (c.1934- ),** British landscape architect of Russian extraction, well known carnivorous plant grower.
(Ch)

tri-, = three times, thrice;
nervus, = a sinew, tendon, nerve.
(nerve (vein))
(three-veined)
(LS, ld, BL)

xeros, = dry, parched;
xera, = dry land;
philios, = loving, friendly, kind.
xerophilus, = loving dry land.
(LS, BL)

After Carl Ludwig Phillip Zeyher (1799-1858),** German botanist and botanical collector, a well-known German naturalist who collected plants in South Africa. Zeyher came to the Cape in 1822, was a botanist at the Botanical Garden there, published Enumeratio plantarum Africae Australis with Christian Friedrich Ecklon (c.f. eckloneana), and died of smallpox.
(Ch)