PRONUNCIATION AND DERIVATION OF 
BOTANICAL NAMES. 
An attempt has been made to give roughly the pronunciation of foreign names 
in composition, it must be remembered, the silent final n,t, and other letters are 
pronounced, i.e. Garnot [Garr No.] becomes Garnotia [Garr-no-tee-a]; the 
nasal in [ang.|, etc.: become ine [een.], etc.: such nasal sounds are of courge 
merely approximate, 
In words derived from Latin and Greek, the following is the table of pronunci- 
ation, adoptea by Nicholson : -— 
a, as in apart. ad, as in Psdlmist. 2 
6, as in slender 6, asin veined, 0e == al, a8 In pasn- 
i, V; aS in thin, i, y, a8 in mach7nist el 
6, asin rotten 6, as in voter au on, as int house. 
i, asin powerfil ui, as in réler. 
c f ce in muscular Viens and Latin dipthongs, with 
ch } always hard,as ; ch in christian two separate letters, have in 
ey L g in good 1 the text been marked with a 
‘ 
long accent over them as 4. 
Herein, orders, genera, and derivatives from persons, names have been com- 
menced with capitals; species, etc. (unless also a genus or personal derivative), 
with small letters. 
Note :—-A great many terms have become anglicized technically ; e.g., aristatus— 
aristate, uncinatus — uncinate, and so forth, 
Ab-el’-i-a ne ... (com.) Dr, Chas. Abel, Physician to Lord Amherst’s Embassy 
to China (1887) (N. 3/1); 
Ab’-i-es fe ... Abeo (Latin), to rise; (all:) aspiring of habit of growth 
the tree (N. 1/1); 
Ab-nor-ma’-lis Se } (Latin), abnormal; in which some departure takes place from 
Ab-nor’-mis the ordinary structure of the family, or genus, to which 
a given plant belongs ; 
Ab-ro'-ma __.... .. @, broma (Greek), not food; (all:} its unwholesomeness 
(N. 1/3); 
Ab-rot’-an-um .. (Latin), name of the plant, used by Horace, a Roman poet 
65-8 B.C. (Cass. Lat. Dic.) ; 
A’-brus aM a oe (Greek), soft; (all:) extreme softness of the leaves 
N, 1/3); 
ab-u’-til-if-ol-i-a ... abutilon, folium (Latin), abutilon, leaf; (all:) resemblance 
of leaves ; 
ab-u’-til-o-i-des ... a@bitilon, eidos (Greek’ abutilon, likeness; (all:) resem- 
blance of plant ; 
Ab-w’-til-on .., ... (Arabic), name of this, or similar, plant (N. 1/3) ; 
Ac-a’-ci-a Ns wae (Celtic), point, or akazo (Greek) sharpen; (all:) spinous 
thorns of most species (N. 1/5); 
Ac-al’-yph-a ... 1. akalaphe (Greek), nettle, name given by Hippocrates (N. 
1/7), akaléphe is the Lexicon name for nettle, which would 
bring the accent on the penultimate syllable ; 
Ac-anth-a-ce-2a ». (Latin) Acanthus Family, or Order ; 
Ac-anth’-oph-ce-nix .,,  akuntha, phoinix (Greek), spine, Date Palm; (all:) stem 
densely arnred with black needle shaped spines (N. 1/7). 
Ac-anth’-us ... oa le hie Spine ; (all :) prickly nature of many species 
N. 1/8) ; 
ac-au’-lis wes (Greek), stemless ; 
ac’-cre’-tns ... oo. (Latin), acerete ; fastened to another body, and growing with it ; 
