The Names of Plants

Glossary haplocalyx having the sepals united into a single structure, aplo-kaluc Haplocarpha Single-scaled-one, aplo-karfh (the pappus) Haplocoelum Single-chamber, aplo-koiloj (the ovary) Haploesthes Single-garment, aplo-esqhj (involucral bracts) Haplolophium One-crested, aplo-lofoj (the seed wing) Haplopappus Single-down, aplo-pappoj (its one-whorled pappus) Haplophragma Half-partitioned, aplo-fragma Haplophyllum Simple-leaved, aplo-fullon (undivided leaves) Haplophytum Simple-plant, aplo-futon Haplosciadium Simple-umbel, aplo-skiadoj Haplostichanthus Single-rowed-flowers, aplo-stixoj-anqoj (inflorescence of island mint) hapto- fastening-, attaching-, touching-, aptw, aptoHaptocarpum Attaching-fruit, apto-karpoj (glandular) Haraella Little-Hara, feminine diminutive for Yoshie Hara, Japanese botanist Harbouria for J. Harbour, American naturalist and collector Hardenbergia for Countess Franziska von Hardenberg von Huegel (1794–1870), sister of the traveller Count Hugel, and patron of science Hardwickia for Thomas Hardwicke (1755–1835), General of Bengal artillery, botanist and collector for East India Company Hariota for Thomas Harriot (1560–1621), English polymath, explorer, mentor of Sir Walter Raleigh harlandii for Dr W. A. Harland (d. 1857), who collected in China harmalus -a -um from an Arabic vernacular name, harmil, for its medicinal use Harmsia, harmsii for Hermann August Theodore Harms (1870–1942), German professor at Prussian Academy of Sciences, editor of Pflanzenreich, Botanic Museum in Berlin Harmsiodoxa Harms’-glory, for Hermann Harms (supra), botanical Latin from Harms and doca harp-, harpago- snatching-, robbing-, arpac, arpagoj (covering of small hooks, burred) Harpachne Snatching-chaff, (arpac, arpagoj)-axnh (the glumes) Harpalyce for the mythological amazon, daughter of Harpalycus of Thrace Harpagophytum Grapple-plant, arpagoj-futon, rapacious-plant, (the fruit is covered with barbed spines) Harpanema Curved-threads, arpa-nhma (staminal coronna) harpe-, harpeodes sickle-, sickle-like, harpe, arph, arphwdhj Harpephyllum Sickle-leaved, arph-fullon Harpochloa Sickle-grass, arph-xloh harpophyllus -a -um with sickle-shaped leaves, arph-fullon Harpullia a Bengali vernacular name Harrimanella feminine diminutive for Edward Henry Harriman (1848–1909), American founder of the Union Pacific Railroad, philanthropist Harrisella, Harrisia for William Harris (1860–1920), Irish botanist, superintendent of Public Gardens and Plantations, Jamaica harrisianus -a -um for T. Harris of Kingsbury, importer of Mexican plants c. 1840 Harrisonia, harrisonianus -a -um for Arnold Harrison and for his wife, of Aigburth, Liverpool harrovianus -a -um for George Harrow (1858–1940), of Veitch’s Coombe Wood nursery, Chelsea harryanus -a -um for Sir Harry James Veitch (1840–1924), head of Veitch & Sons, nurserymen of Chelsea Hartogia for J. Hartog (c. 1663–1722), early Dutch gardener in S Africa and Ceylon Hartwegia, hartwegii for Carl Theodor Hartweg (1812–71), who collected for the RHS in Central America hartwigii for Augustus Karl Julius Hartwig (1823–1913), German writer on horticulture 191