icones wrote:
>Whenever I have a question on spelling I try to go back to the original publication (if I can) >and see how it was originally spelled. Unfortunately, I don't have 'Bonplandia" or 'Xenia >Orchidaceae' (the two earliest references). So to the things I do have. All the things I checked >Stein, Williams, Veitch, Kew Monocot checklist, Henessy, Schweinfurth, and Schlechter, spell it >as Peter spelled it. However, Cash spells it 'boissieranum' leaving the 'i' out between the >'r' and 'a' (a rather strange thing!). I found no source that used your spelling, that does
>not mean there are none, I just did not find any in the references I checked.
The worrying thing to me about this is tracking all the changes that may have been made over the centuries since the original publication. So, in the end, just who is right?
Colin Hamilton
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