A quick Google search suggest that Hannonius was a Roman geographer, who with someone called Arrianus wrote a work called Periplus. A periplus was a navigational guide for sailors. There is not much else on Google You can buy a copy of a 1533 edition, together with works by other great Roman geographers Ptolemy, Pluutarch and Strabo, for 16000 euros PTOLOMAEUS, Claudius. De Geographia libri Octo (graece), summa con vigilantia excusi. (Leg. con:) ARRIANUS & HANNONIUS: Periplus. PLUTARCUS. De fluminibus & montibus. STRABONIS epitome. Basileae, (Hieronymus Froben et Nicolaus Episcopius), 1533, http://www.polybiblio.com/preliber/52.html John Grimshaw Dr John M. Grimshaw Sycamore Cottage Colesbourne Nr Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 9NP COLESBOURNE PARK OPEN DAYS 2007 Easter Monday 9 April, Arboretum Weekend 15-16 September Gates open 1pm, last entry 4 pm website: http://www.colesbournegardens.org.uk/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hannon" <othonna@gmail.com> To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 3:50 AM Subject: Re: [pbs] Hannonia, again > Alberto, > > I read somewhere that the name comes from a Roman outpost somewhere in > its native range, called "Hannonius" or something similar. > Unfortunately I can't recall where I read this and the original > description of the genus gives no indication. > > Dylan > > On 8/28/07, Alberto Grossi <crinum@libero.it> wrote: >> Hi all, I added further informations about Hannonia to the Hannonia page. >> Does any of you know whre the name Hannonia comes from? >> Thank you >> >> Alberto >> Italy >> >> _______________________________________________ >> pbs mailing list >> pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >> http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php >> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >> > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.484 / Virus Database: 269.12.10/976 - Release Date: > 27/08/2007 18:20 > >