Species within a genus

angustus, = narrow, strait, close, contracted, small, not spacious.
(narrow)
(ld, BL)

borbonia, = of or from Reunion Island;
-icus, = indicates ‘belonging to’.
(the plant was mistakenly thought to originate from Reunion (Ille de Bourbon)
(BL, K3)

coccinus, = scarlet-coloured;
-ineus, = indicates material or colour or close resemblance.
(ld, BL)

dif-¸dis-, = asunder, in pieces, apart, in two, in different directions;
sto, = to stand still, stand upright.
(ld, BL)

For Henri Georges Fourcade (1865-1948).**
(Ch)

humus, humi, = the earth, the ground, the soil; on the ground;
-ilis, = indicates capacity or ability. Hence a property or quality.
humilis, = on the ground, i.e. low, lowly, small, slight.
(ld, BL)

lac, = milk; milky juice, milk of plants;
lacca, = an unknown plant;
lak, = crimson;
(the juice of the fruit is crimson red)
(laksha, = lacca, gum-lac, is the dark-red resinous incrustation produced on certain trees by the puncture of an insect insect (Caccus lacca); used in the East as a scarlet dye)
-atus, = indicates possession or likeness.
(looking as if varnished)
(ld, Ox, Le, BL)

margo, marginis, = an edge, brink, border, margin;
-atus, = indicates possession or likeness.
(margined)
(ld, BL)

For Maria Sibylla Merian (1647 – 1717);**
-anus, = belonging to, connected with, pertaining to, used to form adjectives from nouns, particularly from geographical and personal names.
(Ch, BL)

paucus, pauci, = few, a few, little;
folium, = a leaf.
(few-leaved)
(ld, BL)

For (1) Rev. Frederick Arundel Rogers (1876-1944), or (2) Rev. William Moyle Rogers (1835-1920).**
(Ch)

For Friedrich Richard Rudolf Schlechter (1872-1925).**
(Ch)

specto, = to look at, behold; to gaze at, watch, observe;
-abilis, -bilis, = indicates capacity or ability.
spectabilis, = that may be seen, visible; that is worth seeing, notable, admirable, remarkable.
(worth seeing, notable, admirable, remarkable)
(ld)

stēnos, = narrow, straight;
siphon, = a reed, straw, any tube.
(tube, pipe)

(LS, BL)

For Carl Ludwig Philipp Zeyher (1799-1858).**
(Ch)