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Glossary<br />

haplocalyx having the sepals united into a single structure, aplo-kaluc<br />

Haplocarpha Single-scaled-one, aplo-karfh (the pappus)<br />

Haplocoelum Single-chamber, aplo-koiloj (the ovary)<br />

Haploesthes Single-garment, aplo-esqhj (involucral bracts)<br />

Haplolophium One-crested, aplo-lofoj (the seed wing)<br />

Haplopappus Single-down, aplo-pappoj (its one-whorled pappus)<br />

Haplophragma Half-partitioned, aplo-fragma<br />

Haplophyllum Simple-leaved, aplo-fullon (undivided leaves)<br />

Haplophytum Simple-plant, aplo-futon<br />

Haplosciadium Simple-umbel, aplo-skiadoj<br />

Haplostichanthus Single-rowed-flowers, aplo-stixoj-anqoj (inflorescence of<br />

island mint)<br />

hapto- fastening-, attaching-, touching-, aptw, apto-<br />

Haptocarpum Attaching-fruit, apto-karpoj (glandular)<br />

Haraella Little-Hara, feminine diminutive for Yoshie Hara, Japanese botanist<br />

Harbouria for J. Harbour, American naturalist and collector<br />

Hardenbergia for Countess Franziska von Hardenberg von Huegel (1794–1870),<br />

sister of the traveller Count Hugel, and patron of science<br />

Hardwickia for Thomas Hardwicke (1755–1835), General of Bengal artillery,<br />

botanist and collector for East India Company<br />

Hariota for Thomas Harriot (1560–1621), English polymath, explorer, mentor of<br />

Sir Walter Raleigh<br />

harlandii for Dr W. A. Harland (d. 1857), who collected in China<br />

harmalus -a -um from an Arabic vernacular name, harmil, for its medicinal use<br />

Harmsia, harmsii for Hermann August <strong>The</strong>odore Harms (1870–1942), German professor<br />

at Prussian Academy of Sciences, editor of Pflanzenreich, Botanic Museum<br />

in Berlin<br />

Harmsiodoxa Harms’-glory, for Hermann Harms (supra), botanical Latin from<br />

Harms and doca<br />

harp-, harpago- snatching-, robbing-, arpac, arpagoj (covering of small hooks,<br />

burred)<br />

Harpachne Snatching-chaff, (arpac, arpagoj)-axnh (the glumes)<br />

Harpalyce for the mythological amazon, daughter of Harpalycus of Thrace<br />

Harpagophytum Grapple-plant, arpagoj-futon, rapacious-plant, (the fruit is<br />

covered with barbed spines)<br />

Harpanema Curved-threads, arpa-nhma (staminal coronna)<br />

harpe-, harpeodes sickle-, sickle-like, harpe, arph, arphwdhj<br />

Harpephyllum Sickle-leaved, arph-fullon<br />

Harpochloa Sickle-grass, arph-xloh<br />

harpophyllus -a -um with sickle-shaped leaves, arph-fullon<br />

Harpullia a Bengali vernacular name<br />

Harrimanella feminine diminutive for Edward Henry Harriman (1848–1909),<br />

American founder of the Union Pacific Railroad, philanthropist<br />

Harrisella, Harrisia for William Harris (1860–1920), Irish botanist, superintendent of<br />

Public Gardens and Plantations, Jamaica<br />

harrisianus -a -um for T. Harris of Kingsbury, importer of Mexican plants c. 1840<br />

Harrisonia, harrisonianus -a -um for Arnold Harrison and for his wife, of Aigburth,<br />

Liverpool<br />

harrovianus -a -um for George Harrow (1858–1940), of Veitch’s Coombe Wood<br />

nursery, Chelsea<br />

harryanus -a -um for Sir Harry James Veitch (1840–1924), head of Veitch & Sons,<br />

nurserymen of Chelsea<br />

Hartogia for J. Hartog (c. 1663–1722), early Dutch gardener in S Africa and Ceylon<br />

Hartwegia, hartwegii for Carl <strong>The</strong>odor Hartweg (1812–71), who collected for the<br />

RHS in Central America<br />

hartwigii for Augustus Karl Julius Hartwig (1823–1913), German writer on<br />

horticulture<br />

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