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. Jim Shields At 01:33 PM 6/28/2010 -0700, you wrote: >Forgive me if I am wrong, but i remember that on my taxonomy classes, it >was told me that plant names dedicated to a female end with "ae" and those >dedicated to males with the "ii" or "i" termination in the species epithet. > >Like Dendrobium victoriae-reginae after the Queen Victoria, Mepenthes >jacquelinae after Jacqueline Clarke, Aechmea mariae-reginae, etc. But I >could be wrong... >And what about Haemanthuis bakerae? was it also named after a lady? >..... ************************************************* Jim Shields USDA Zone 5 Shields Gardens, Ltd. P.O. Box 92 WWW: http://www.shieldsgardens.com/ Westfield, Indiana 46074, USA Tel. ++1-317-867-3344 or toll-free 1-866-449-3344 in USA