The specific epithet has to agree with the gender of the genus, so has nothing to do with the gender of anyone it commemorates. T > Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:57:06 -0400 > To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > From: jshields@indy.net > Subject: Re: [pbs] Haemanthus and Scadoxus Culture > > Michael, > > I have not seen Dee Snijman's original publication of Haemanthus barkerae, > but from the ending of the species name, I would judge that it is named > after a Ms. Barker. > > In botanical Latin, the rule seems to be that the modern person's name is > Latinized by adding "i" to the modern name plus either "a" or "us" unless > it ends in "-er" in which cases the "i" is omitted. I think zoologists > tend to leave out the "i" in all cases. >