brev-if-l’o-ra 
brev-if-ol’-ia 
brev’-i-ees 
brey-1s-ca’-pa 
brev-is-tig’-ma 
brev-it’-ub-a ... 
Brew-er’-i-a ... 
Brey’-ni-a 
Bri-de’-i-a 
_ Brous-son-e’-ti-a 
Brown’-é-a 
Bru’-cé-a 
Brug-ui-e’-ra ... 
Brun-fel’-si-a 
brun’-ne-a 
-Bru-no’ni-a’-na 
Bra-no’-nis 
Bu-chan-a’-ni 
Ba-chan-a’-ni-a 
Buck-lan’-di-a 
Budd-le’-i-a ... 
budd-le-i-o-i’-des 
bul-bif’-er-a 
Bul-boph-yl-‘lum 
bul-bo’-sa 
Bun-gé a’-na ... 
Bi’-ni-us 
Bi-o’-nap-ar’-te-a 
Bn-pleu’-rum 
Bur-man -ni 
Bur-ridg’-e-i 
Bar-sa’-vi-a 
Bur’-ser-a 
Bur-scr-a’-ce-2o 
Bu’-té-a 
bux-if-ol’-i-a ... 
Bux’-us SY. 
Bys-soph-yl-lum 
Cac-a/’-o 2 
Cac-ta‘-ce-z ... 
Cad’-ab-a_.... 
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PRONUNCIATION AND DERIVATION. 27 
(Latin), short, jlowered ; 
(Latin), short, leaved ; 
(Latin), short-footed, or atalked ; 
(Latin), short-trunked, or scaped ; 
(Latin), with short stigma ; 
(Latin), with short tube ; 
(com.) Brewer ; 
(com.) Johann Philipp Breyn, German botanist (N. 5/160) ; 
(com.) Bridel [ (pr :) Breedale], German botanist ; 
(com.) P. N. V. Browssonet [(pr:) Broo-son-nay ], French natu- 
ralist, who wrote many works in Natural History (N. 1/249) ; 
(com.) Patrick Brown, M.n., author “ History of Jamaica” 
(N. 1/215) ; 
(com.) James Bruce, celebrated African traveller (N. 1/215) ; 
(com.) Bruguier [(pr:) Bryg-ee-yay |, French botanist ; 
(com.) stto Brunfel. [(pr:) Broon-felse] of Menty, first a 
Carthusian monk, afterwards physician, who published the 
first good figures of plants in 1580 (N. 1/215) ; 
(Latin), deep brown; pure, and dull, almot wmbrinous (q.v.), 
or burnt umber ; 
(com.) of Robert Brown, formerly Superintendent of the Madras 
Agri-horticultural Society’s Gardens ; afterwards a dis- 
tinguished botanical authority ; 
(com.) of Dr. F. H. Buchanan-Hawilton ; 
(com.) Dr. F. F. H. Buchanan-Hamilton, author of ‘ Journey 
to Mysore,’’ 1802 (Ch) ; 
(com.) Dr. Buckland, former Dean of Westminster and Pro- 
fessor of Geology at Oxford (N. 1/218) ; 
(com.) Adam Buddle, often mentioned in Ray’s Synopsis ; whose 
herbarium is preserved in the British Museum (N. 1/220) ; 
(Greek), resembling Buddleia ; 
(Latin), bearing bulbs (N. 1/221) ; 
béulbos, phullon (Greek), bulb, leaf; (all:) leaves issue from 
the apex of pseudobalbs (N. 1/220) ; 
(Latin), furnished with a bulb; 
(com.) of Bunge | (pr :) Boon-gay | ; 
(Amboynese, §. Moluccas), name of the plant ; 
(com.) Napaleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French, 1746-- 
1821 ; 
Bous, plewron (Greek), ov, rib; (all :) strong nerves of the leaves 
probably ; 
(com.) of Professor J, Burmann [ (pr :) Boor-marn) ] Dutch botan- 
ist, Professor at Amsterdam, with whom Linnzus lived for a 
year (1785), author of “Flora indica” and ‘ Thesaurus 
Zeylanicus ”’ ; 
(com.) of Burridge, celebrated floriculturalist ; 
bursa (Latin) a pouch; (all:) the capsules which much 
resemble those of Shepherd’s Purse (Capsella) (N. 1/225) ; 
(com.) Joachim Burser (pr: Yo.ar. kim Boor. sair) discipie of 
Caspar Bauhin (N. 1/225) ; 
(Latin), Bursera Family or Order ; 
(com.) John, Earl of Bute munificent 
(N. 1/225) ; 
(Latin), with leaves like Box (Buxus) ; 
Pyknos (Greek), dense ; (all :) hardness of the wood (N. 1/226) ; 
bursa, phillonw (Greek), a hide, leaf; (all:) the very coriaceous 
leaves ; 
patron of Botany 
(Guianese), name of the plant (Br. 27 ; Ch.); 
(Latin) Cactus [from Kaktos (Greek) name used by Theophras- 
tus for a spiny plant | Family or Order [ Note: the term Cactus 
is applied to all genera of the order} (N. 1/230) ; 
Kadhab (arabic) name of the plant (Ck.) ; 
