I can do "John Wellington Wells" pretty patly; but to read through a horticultural article
Would give an alligator instantaneous tetanus; and of meaning the words seem to have no particle.
I should like to be introduced, in its Bornean home, to the glorious plant called Cælo Dyana.
But fancy a footman having to announce Madame SPATHOGLOTTIS KIMBALLIANA!
Odont. Uro-Skinneri sounds like something medical and epidermic, but then we're informed that its sepals and petals
Are "reticulated in tender brown and broad rosy-mauve," which immediately sends one "off the metals."
The Masdevallias may be a respectable family, though I should not care to marry into it,
But "the hybrid M. Mundyana representing M. Veitchii × M. Ignea" (though "a wonderfully glowing orange" by all accounts), sounds so exceedingly mixed and mongrel that I'd certainly eschew it.
"A noble Catt: Gigas" sounds rather aristocratic: "Catt: Jacomb," I suppose, is a sort of a relative;
But Od. Citrosmum, sounds awfully odd, and is not my notion of a reassuring appellative.