drimus, = piercing, stinging, biting, pungent;
-ius, = means ‘characteristic of’, hence indicates connexion or resemblance.
(all parts of plant sometimes poisonous or an irritant) (LS, BL, Le)
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)