Paramongaia is named after the location Paramonga in Peru, so the ending -ia is perhaps just the Latin ending. The name has nothing to do with the Greek Gaea, I think. It certainly is on the top of my list of five. Dell > And better make that Paramongaia, not Paramongaea, although I suspect that > the latter is grammatically correct and the former is based on an unorthodox > transliteration from the Greek. > > Jim McKenney > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >