Species within a genus

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

For John Gilbert Baker (1834-1920),** British botanist and plant collector, Fellow of the Linnean and Royal Societies, worked at the library at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 1866-1899, and was keeper of the herbarium there, 1890-1899.
(Ch)

cantharus, = a sort of drinking-cup;
philios, = loving, friendly, kind.
(LS)

caput, = of things; the head, top, summit, point, end, extremity;
-atus, = indicates possession or likeness.
capitatus, = having a head.
(capitate, with a knob-like head or tip)

(ld, BL)

confundo, confusus, = brought into disorder, confused, perplexed, disorderly.
(easily mistaken for another species)
(ld, K3)

cuspis, = a point, the pointed end of any thing;
-idus, = indicates a state or action in progress (‘-ish’);
-atus, = indicates possession or likeness.
(cuspate; a pointed end of any organ, especially a sharp rigid point of a leaf)
(ld, BL, Ox)

glaukos, = pale-green, bluish-green, gray.
(glaucous; bluish-green or grey)
(covered with a fine bloom of the colour of a Cabbage leaf)
(LS, BL)

jungo, = to join or unite together, connect, attach, fasten, yoke, harness;
juncus, = a twig resembling a rush;
folium, = a leaf.

(ld)

makros, = far stretching; tall, lofty, much;
carpos, = fruit.
(with large fruit)
(LS, BL)

magnus, major, maximus.
magnus, = of physical size or quantity, great, large; of things, vast, extensive, spacious;.major, = the comparative of magnus.
maximus, = the superlative of magnus.

(ld)

oligos, = few-, little;
cephale, = head;
-alis, -aris, = belonging or pertaining to, resembling, provided with.
(LS, BL)

racemus, = the stalk of a cluster of grapes and similar plants;
(raceme)
-osus, = indicates abundance or full or marked development.
racemosus, = full of clusters, clustering.
(ld, BL)

recido, = to cut away, cut down, cut off; (in agriculture) to lop off, cut short, retrench, abridge, diminish;
recisus, = shortened, abridged, short, brief.

(ld)

rigeo, rigens, = to be stiff, stiffen;
(stiff, rigid, unbendable)
-idus, = indicates a state or an action in progress;
rigidus, = stiff, hard, inflexible, rigid;
folium, = a leaf.
(ld, BL)

spira, = that which is wound, wreathed, coiled or twisted; a coil, fold, twist, spire;
-alis, -aris, = belonging or pertaining to, resembling, provided with.
(spiral)

(ld, 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)