A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Cancellarius,-ii (s.m.II), abl. sg. cancellario: Engl. chancellor: a kind of porter, door-keeper; a secretary (Lewis & Short); “The original chancellors were the cancellarii of Roman courts of justice—ushers, who sat at the cancelli or lattice work screens of a basilica or law court, which separated the judge and counsel from the audience” (Wikipedia May 2014); in the sense of the examples, a chancellor is the head of a university;

- [Lysiosepalum Barryanum] Stirpem pulchram et singularem tribuo clarissimo Redm. Barry, nostrae coloniae judici, universitatis Melbournensis cancellario, et bibliothecae publicae fundatori (F. Mueller), I bestow a beautiful and singular plant to the most distinguished Redm. Barry, judge of our colony, chancellor of the University of Melbourne [Sir Redmond Barry, first Chancellor of the University of Melbourne].

- [Goodenia Nicholsonii.] stirpem decoram illustri Carolo Nicholson, Equiti, M.D., LL.D., D.C.L., Universitatis Sydneyensis Cancellario offero (F. Mueller), I present a beautiful plant to the honorable Carl Micholoson, Knight, M.D., LL.D., D.C.L., Chancellor of the University of Sydney.