NUTATION 455 



Notonia DC. (Senecio p.p. EP.}. Compositae (8). 12 palaeotrop. 



Notopora Hook. f. Ericaceae (in. 2). i Brit. Guiana. 



Notoptera Urb. Compositae (5). i Jamaica, Guatemala. 



Notopterygium Boissieu. Umbelliferae (in. 2). 2 China. 



Notorhizal, Crudferae. 



Notosceptrum Benth. Liliaceae (in). 8 S. and trop. Afr. 



Notospartium Hook. f. Leguminosae (in. 6). i N.Z. 



Notothixos Oliv. Loranthaceae (n). 6 Indomal. 



Notothlaspi Hook. f. Cruciferae (i). 3 N.Z. 



Nototribe (fl.), with essential organs striking a visitor's back. 



Nototriche Turcz. (Afalvas/rinn A. Gray). Malvaceae (2). 75 S. Am. 



Nototricbium Hillebrand. Amarantaceae (2). 3 Hawaiian Is. 



Notylia Lindl. Orchidaceae (n. 19). 24 trop. Am. Cult. orn. fl. 



Nouelia F ranch. Compositae (12). i S.W. China. 



Nouettea Pierre. Apocynaceae (n. i). i Cochinchina. 



Noyera Tree. (Perebea p.p. ). Moraceae (il). i Guiana. 



Nucellus, the mass of the ovular tissue. 



Nucularia Battand. Chenopodiaceae (B). i S. Oran. 



Nuculiferae (Warming). The 6th cohort of Sympetalae. 



Nudiflorae (BH.}. The 5th series of Monocotyledons. 



Nudiflorus (Lat.), with naked fl. 



Nuphar Sibth. et Sm. Nymphaeaceae (m). 7 N. temp, and cold. 

 N. Inteum Sibth. et Sm. (yellow water-lily or brandy-bottle) in Brit. 

 Veg. habit of Nymphaea (q.r.}. The fl. projects a little above the 

 water, and is fully hypog. At the base of the peduncle is a rudimen- 

 tary bract. There are 5 large coloured outer P leaves, quincuncial, 

 the fourth anterior; within are the 'petals,' 13 in number arranged 

 in a 5/13 spiral. Then follow oo sta., the outer 13 alt. with the petals, 

 the next 13 with them, and so on in a spiral. G (10 16), multiloc. 

 Stigmas, ovules, &c., as in Nymphaea. Fr. a large berry; it breaks 

 off from the stalk and splits up into separate cpls. The seeds have no 

 aril like Nymphaea, but the slimy pericarp contains bubbles : the 

 seeds are set free by its decay, and sink. 



Nut, a dry indeh. fr., the product of > i cpl. ; Areca -, Areca; 

 Australian chest-, Castanospermum australe A. Cunn.: Bambarra 

 ground-, Voandzeia subterranea Thou.; betel-, Areca Catechu L. ; 

 bladder -, Staphylca ; Brazil-, Be'-tholletia excelsa Humb. et Bonpl. ; 

 bread -, Brosinntm ; butter -, Caryjcar nuciferum L. ; candle -, 

 Aleurites triloba Forst. ; cashew -, Anaeardium occidentale L. ; 

 chest-, Castanea vulgaris Lam. ; cob-. Corylus ; COCO-, Cocos nu- 

 cifera L. ; cola-, Cola vera K. Schum. ; coquilla -, Attalea funifera 

 Mart. ; earth-, Arachis hypogaea L., Couopodiitm dennJatiim Koch; 

 -grass, Cypents; ground-, Arachis hypogaea L. ; hazel-, Corylus 

 Avellana L. ; hog-, Spondias ; horn-, Trapa ; horse-chest-, Aesculus 

 Hippocastamnn^.; ivory-, Phytelephas ; kola-, see cola ; marking-, 

 Semecarpus ; pea-, Arachis hypogaea L. ; pistachio-, Pistachia vera 

 L. ; pecan-, Carya; physic -, Jatropha Curcas L. ; -rush (Am.), 

 Scleria; Sapucaia-, Lecythis; Souari-, Caryocar nuciferum L. ; 

 -tree (Austr. ), Macadamia. 

 Nutans (Lat.), nodding. 

 Nutation, lateral swaying of tip of a growing organ. 



