Os-beck’-i-a ... 
Os-manth’-us eer 
Os-mun’-da oes 
os’ -se-2 
Os-to’-des 
Os'-yr-is 
O-toph-or-a 
Ou-gein’-i-a 
o-va-lif-ol’-i-a 
o-va’-ta 
o-va-tif-ol-1-um 
Ov-0-i’-de-a ... Ao 
Ox-ul-ob-i-um 
Ox-yp-et’-al-um 
ox-yph-yl-la ... 
Ox-ys-tel-ma ... 
Ox-yt-en’-an-the’-ra .. 
Pach-yg’-on-e 
pa-cif’-ic-a 
Pe-de’-ri-a 
pa-hu’-di-a’-na, 
Pa-jan-el’-i-a ... 
pa-la’-ce-us 
pal-e- a’-ce-us 
pal-zs-ti’-ne .., 
pal-em-ban-is-us 
Pal’-las-i-a‘-na 
pal’-lid-a 
Pal’-me so Se 
. pal-ma’-ta ... Se 
pal-met’-to 
pal-min-er’-vis 
pal-u- do’-sa ove eee 
pal-us’-tre .,. ves 
PRONUNCIATION AND DERIVATION. 75 
(com.) Peter Osbeck, 1723—1805, Swiss clergyinan and*natural- 
ist (N. 2/1,528) ; 
osmeé, anthos (Greek), fragrance, flower ; (all:) perfume of the 
blossoms ; 
(Clas.) Osmunder, another name of the Scandinavian Thor, 
God of Thunder, a powerfui man in the prime of life with a 
long red beard, carrying a hammer in his hand, end possessing 
a girdle which had the power of renewing his strength, 
(N. 2/530); (all:) not obvious, but the inflorescence some- 
what resembles a long red beard ; 
(Latin), bony, hard, and very close in teature, not cut off 
without difficulty, ancl the parts so cut being brittle ; 
(Greek), like bone; (all:) bony endocarp of the capsule ; 
(Greek), name of the plant used by Discorides (N. 2/582) ; 
ous (g. otos), phoreo (Greek), ear, to bear ; (all:) base of petals 
auriculate ; 
(loc.) Oojjein, or Ujjayini, or Ujain, a city in the native state of 
. Gwalior, traditionally the capital of Vikramaditya, in which 
city the pillars of the Madajee Scindia’s palace consisted of 
the timber of this plant (Rox. 3/221) ; 
(Latin), with oval leaves, broadly elliptic in outline, and acute 
at both ends (H.) ; 
(Latin), ovate, the sbape of an egg with the broad and down- 
wards (N. 2/537) ; 
(Latin), with ovate leaves ; 
(Latin), of solids with a figure resembling an egg ; 
Jas, lobion (Greek), sharp, pod ; (all:) legumes end in sharp 
points (Nic. 2/542), 
ovus, petalon (Gresk), sharp, petal ; (all:) petals are shup 
pointed (N. 2/533). 
(Greek), with shurp leaves ; 
otus, stelma (Greek), sharp girdle; (all:) segments of corona 
are acute (N. 2/533) ; 
ovute nes, anthera (Greek), stretched to a point, anther ; (all :) 
narrow acute anthers; 
pachius. goné, (Greek), thick, seed ; (al?:) thick semicylindric 
cotyledon (Ch.) ; 
(loc.) Pucifie Islands, or Polynesia, comprising the intertropical 
islands east of the Australian Barrierreef, New Guinea and 
the Philippine Islands and including the Solomon, New 
Hebrides, Fiji, Samoa, Hawaii, Cook, Society, Caroline, 
Marshall and Gilbert Islands ; 
pedes (Latin), offensive smell; (all:) rank odour of all the 
parts when bruised (N. 2/84) ; 
(loc.) pertaining to Pahuda, in Java; 
payyannali (Malayalam), name of the tree (McL. 2/732) ; 
(Latin) palaceous, when the foot stalk adheres to the margin; 
(Latin), chaffy, covered with small weak membranous scales ; 
(loc.) of Palestine, bordering the eastern shore of the Mediter- 
ranean Sea ; 
(loc.) of Palembang, a district in the south-eastern part of 
Sumatra ; 
(com.) Peter Simon Pallas, 1741—1811, German naturalist and 
traveller: 
(Latin), pale, or of undecided colour (H.) ; 
(Latin), Palm Family, or Order ; 
(Latin), palmate, with the ribs of the leaf lobes or leaflets, all 
meeting at the apex of the peticle, the segments like the 
extended fingers of an open hand (H.,) ; 
(Spanish), a small palm ; 
(Latin), Palmicostate, when.the ribs of a leaf are palmate; 
} (Latin), growing in swamps (H.) ; 
