Mel-as’-tom-a 
Mel-as’-tom-a’-ce-2, 
Mel-han -i-a 
Mel-i-a 
Mel-i-a’-ce-22 
mel-j-2-fol’-j-a 
Mel-i-anth’-us 
Mel-io’-op-e 
Mel-i-os’-ma 
Me-loc-ac’-tus 
Me-lo’-chi-a 
me-long’-en-a 
me-lo-nif-or’-mis ... 
mem-bran-a’-ce-us.., 
me-me’-cyl-if-ol’-i-us. 
Me-me’-cyl-on 
mem-no’-ni-us 
men’-as-u_... a 
men-is’-co-i’-de-us .. 
Me’-nis-per-ma -ce-2. 
mer-gu-en’-sis 
Me-ri-an’-dra 
Mer-ku’-si-i 
Me’-st-a 
met-al’-lic-a 
Me’-tel 
mex-ic-an-a 
Mez-on-eu-rum nee 
mic’-ans 
Mi-che-li-a ... 
mis-cran’-tha 
mi-or-ob-ul’-bon ... 
mi-croc-ar’-pa oe 
mi-croc-eph’-al-a 
mi-croc’-or-ys 
mi’-croc-os ... 
mi-crog-lés’-sa 
O-A 
PRONUNCIATION AND DERIVATION. 67 
Mélas, stéma (Greek), black mouth; (all:) berries, when eaten 
stain the mouth (N. 2/345) ; 
(Latin), Melastoma Family, or Order ; 
(loc.) Mount Melhan in Arabia Felix, where the first species was 
discovered (N, 2/345) ; 
Mélia (Greek), the Ash tree’; (all:) resemblance of its leaves ; 
often incorrectly pronounced as if the e were long ; 
(Latin), Bead Tree (Melia) Family, or Order ; 
(Latin), with leaves like the Bead Tree (melia) ; 
Meéli, anthos (Greek), Honey, flower ; (all :) calyces full of honey, 
(N. 2/346) ; 
meli, Kopé (Greek), honey, division; (all:) four honey glands at 
the base of the ovary (N. 2/346) ; 
méli, sme (Greek), honey, scent ; 
flowers ; 
mélon, kaktos (Greek), melon, spiny plant; (all:) shape and 
nature (N. 2/347) ; 
melozchos (Greek), a girdle that confines the breasts ; (all :) stamens 
united into a tube only at the base of the ovary, not forming 
a tube throughout as in most allied genera ; 
(Greek), producing a melon like fruit ; 
(Latin), melon shaped, irregularly spherical, with projecting 
ribs; 
(Latin), membranous (not as applied to leaves, for which See 
herbaceous), like a fine membrane, thin and transparent ; 
(Latin), having leaves like Memecylon ; 
(Greek), name used by Dioscorides for the fruit of the Arbutus ; 
(N. 2/351); (all:) not explained ; according to Nicholson: 
but the Arbutus is arboreous and closely allied to the 
Bilberry, and the fruit and leaves of the Memecylon some- 
what resemble those of the Bilberry, hence the name “ Tree 
Bilberry.”” . 
(Latin), brown-black ; 
(Molucca), name of the plant, probably, but doubtful ; 
(Greek), Watch-glass shaped, round, convex on 
surface, concave on the upper ; 
(Latin), Moonseed (menispermum [from méné , sperma (Greek), 
moon, seed ; (all :) shape of the seed (N. 352) ]) Family, or Order ; 
(loc.) pertaining to Mergui, a district of 'Tenasserim in Burmak ; 
mérva, dnér (g. andros) (Greek), thigh bones, male ; (all :) short 
stout stamens; 
(com.) of Merkusius ; 
(com.) Mesue, two celebrated Arabian physicians and botanists 
who flourished at Damascus in the 8th and 9th centuries, 
(Nic. 2/361); 
(Latin), brownish purple with a metallic lustre ; 
Methel (Arabic), name of the plant (E.D. 3/39); 
(loc.), pertaining to Mexico, the Southern portion of North 
America ; 
me sds, neuron (Greek), middle nervs; (all:) joint of the legume 
expanded into a wing (Ch.) ; 
(Latin), shining ; 
(com.) Pietro Antonio Michele [(pr:) Pee-yay-tro arn to- 
nee-vo meek-ay-lay, 1679—1773, a celebrated botanist of 
Florence in Italy (N. 2/362), 
(Greek), small flowered ; 
(Greek), with a small bulb ; 
(Greek), with small fruit ; 
(Greek), with a small head of flowers ; 
(Greek), with a small helmet ; 
mikros, kosmos (Greek), small ornament ; 
below flowers : 
(Greek), wtih a small tongue, or appendage ; 
(all:) fragrance of the 
the lower 
inyolncre 
(all :) 
