Lealt-a-ni-a 
lat-eb-ro’-sa ... 
Latter-a’-lis .., 
lat-er-it’-i-a 
la-tif-ol’-i-a 
la-tro’-num ... 
Laur-a’-ce-2 ... 
laur-if- ol’-j-us 
laur-i’-na ; 
laur-i-nd-i’ des 
Laur-oc-er’ -as-us 
Laur’-us 
Lay-an’-dul-a 
Lav-a’-ter-a 
Law-i-a’-nus ... 
Law’ -i-i 
Law-so’-ni-a ... 
Law-s0’-ni-a’-na 
leeseg- a. « 
lax’-if-lo’-ra ... 
le-ze’-ba 
Lear’-i 
leb’-bek 
Ledg’-er-i-a‘na 
Le’-dum 
Lee -a... 
Leg-u’-min-o’s 
lie-orh-i’-za 
Lem/’-on-i-a’/-na 
Jen-tic-ul-a/-ris 
len-til-or’-mis 
len ti-gin-o’-sus 
le-op-ar-di’-na 
lep-id-oc-ar’-pa 
lep-id-o’-tus 
lep’-id-um 
lep- roc-ar’ pa 
lep-ro’-sus ... 
Lep-tad-e’-ni-a 
Lep-ton-yeh’-i as 
led Te J AWS 
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PRONUNCIATION AND DERIVATION. 61 
Latanier (Mauritius), name of the plant (N. 2/237) ; 
(Latin), seeking, or affording, shelter ; 
(Latin), lateral, fixed near the side of any organ; 
(Latin), brick-red, dull vermilion mixed with grey ; 
(Latin), with broad leaves ; 
(Latin), of robbers, or affording protection to them ; 
(Latin), Lawrel (Laurus) Family, or Order ; 
(Latin), with leaves like laurel ; 
(Latin), like laurel ; 
(quasi-Greek), somewhat like lawrel ; 
(Latin), Laurel Cherry, with laurel-like leaves and Cherry-like 
fruit ; 
(Latin), name used by Cicero, Horace, and Virgil, sacred to 
Apollo, and a wreath of which was emblematic of victory in 
all kinds of pursuits, (Nic. 2/239 ; Cass. Lat. Dic.) ; 
lavo (Latin), to wash; (all:) use for perfuming during ablu- 
tions (N. 2/239) ; 
(com.) Lavater [(pr:) Lar-var-tair}, two brothers, physicians 
and naturalists of Zurich in Switzerland, who lived in the 
18th century ; 
8. Law, Indian Civil Service (Bombay) and 
botanist on the Malabar, or West Coast (Ch.) ; 
(com.) Dr. Isaae Lawson, botanical traveller, who published an 
account of a voyage to Carolina in N. America in 1709 
(N. 2/242) ; 
(com.) of M. A, Lawson, ¥.R.8., who assisted in the preparation 
of Hooker’s “ Flora of British India” ; 
(Latin), loose, not rigid (H.) ; also,in texture, soft and cellular, 
or open in arrangement, the parte being distant from, and 
not closely packed among, each other ; 
(Latin), with flowers loosely arranged ; 
libds (Hindustans), what is tied round; (all:) cord like appear- 
ance and twining habit ; 
(com.) of Lear (N. 2/191) ; 
(South African), name of a similar plant (Treas. Bot.) ; 
(com.) Charles Ledger, an English traveller, who in 1885, 
obtained seeds of a superior kind of Cinchona, which were 
raised with remarkable success in Java ; 
Lédon (Greek), Cistus, name used by Dioscorides , (all :) resem- 
blance in habit and foliage (N. 2/245) ; 
(com.) James Lee, 1715-1795, well-known nursery man at 
Hammersmith, London, who did a good deal to popular 
the Linnwan system (N. 2/247) ; 
(Latin), Legumsnous [from legumen (Latin), pulse;| Family, 
or Order ; 
leios, rhiza (Greek), flat root ; 
(com.) of Sir Charles Lemon, ‘Bart. (Br. 41) ; 
) (Latin), resembling a double convex lens; 
(Latin), dusty, covered with minute dots as if dusted ; 
(Latin), spotted like a leopard, black or purple-brown on yellow 
or orange ground ; 
(Greek), with scaly frust ; 
(Latin from Greek), lepidote, covered with minute peltate (q.v.) 
scales ; 
(Latin), neat ; 
(Greek), with “rough, or scurfy, fruit ; 
(Latin), lepidote; 
leptos, adén (Greek), slender, gland ; (all.) corona of the corolla 
forming minute processes in the sinus of its lobes; 
leptos, onuax (g. onuchos). Greek), insignéficart, claw ; ; (all :) 
orbicular concave petals without the claw, which is prevalent 
in most allied genera ; 
slann chie GRO OM Od 
