> > Jim, are you sure? I would have thought it was named for someone with the French name La Perouse, maybe the Comte de La Perouse, eighteenth century navigator and explorer? The genus was named by French botanist Pierre André Pourret de Figeac, 1754-1818. So the timing is right, but this is just a guess on my part. > According to Goldblatt's 1972 revision it was named by Pourret in honour of his friend the naturalist Baron de la Peirouse, an expert on the plants of the Pyrenees. Mark Mazer Hertford, North Carolina USA USDA 8a with lots o' Laps in the greenhouse now