> How do you suppose they pronounce the genus name in its native
> Namibia?  (hints: former German colony)


Ganz auf deutsch. Welwitsch war oesterreichischen.
I never try to grow anything I can't pronounce, since I talk to my plants. I 
follow Bowles, though, with things like Crocus cvijicii, who said the 
specific epithet should be played on the violin. (I've only mastered the 
kazoo.) Or Farrer, when he suggested that one could pronounced tchihatchewii 
by blowing one's nose.

Bob Nold
 

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