>Your first statement is true for Latin; those three words ARE three syllable 
>words. 


The words are three syllable in Latin, two in English. 
There is no linguistic—or social—justification for pronouncing botanical names 
as though they were Latin.  


Bob Nold 
Denver, Colorado, USA
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