po-mif-or’-mis 
pom-po’ -ni-a 
pon-der-o'-sa 
Pon-ga’-mi-a 
Po-pow’-i-a... 
po -pul-if-ol’-i-am 
po-pul’-né-a 
Po’-ran-a 
por-phy’-re-us tee 
Por’-ter-i 
pos’-tic-us ... 
pot-a-to’-rum 
Po’-thos 
Pou-zol’-zi-a 
preg’-nans 
pree-mor’-sum 
pras’-in-us... aoe 
prec-a-to”-ri-us 
Prem’-na fer a 
priest’-ley 6-i'-dés ... 
prin’-ceps... ee 
pri-no-i’-des ... “en 
Pri-o-ni-tis ... 
Prin-sep -i-a ... 
vris-mat’-ic-us 
Pritch-ar’-di-a 
pro-ce’-ra es xe 
Proc’-ris ae ree 
pro-cum’-bens 
pro-lif’-er-a eee ove 
pro’-nns aa 3 
Pros-o’-pis... te 
prop-in’-quum ove 
pros-tra’-ta eee coe 
PRONUNCIATION AND DERIVATION. 
(Latin), of apple-shape ; 
(Latin), pompone, with small flowers and numerous, mostly 
refiexed, petals (or, in Composite, florets) ; 
(Latin), heavy, or heavy-wooded ; 
Pungam ’Tamil) name of the plant (N. 3/198, Mch 3/694) ; 
(com.) Popow, German botanist ; 
(Latin), with leaves like Poplar (Populus, | alias palpulus] (Latin), 
trembling ; (all:) perpetually trembling leaves (N. 3/199) ; 
(Latin), Poplar-like (N. 4/27) ; 
Bhairi, (Makhratti), name of the plant ; Nicholson places the 
accent on the first a, which he seemingly wrongly makes 
long (N. 3/201, B.D. 6/1/1165) ; 
(Greek), red brown, brown mixed with red, but not sored as 
rufous (a.v.) ; 
(com.) of H. J. A. Porter, Conservator of Forests, Madras ; 
(Latin), turned outwards, turned away from the axis to which 
it pertains ; 
(Latin), of drinkers, useful for persons requiring a drink ; 
Paid, (Singhalese), name of the plant (N. 3/213: McL. 3/288) ; 
Nicholson makes the first o short, placing the accent after 
the first syllable Poth; but that o islong in Singhalese 
according to McLean ; 
(com.) Pouzolz |(pr :) Pootz-oaltz], German botanist ; 
(Latin), pregnant, with smaller fruits within ; 
(Latin), bitten off, the termination abruptly jagged as if bitten 
off (H.); 
(Greek), grass green, clear green without any admixture, inter- 
mediate between pure yellow and pure blue ; 
(Latin), used for praying, or for religious purposes ; 
premnon (Greek), a stump ; (all:) stampy appearance, or low 
stature, of the species (N. 3/215) ; 
(quasi-Greek), resembling Priestleya [from Dr. Joseph Friestley, 
1733--1804, a famous English chemist] ; 
(Latin), prince ; (all :) fine appearance ; 
(Greek) resembling Holly (Prinus alias I] ex.) ; 
prion (Greek), Saw ; (all:) appearance of the capsule ; 
(com.) Prinsep; author of History of the Punjab ; 
(Greek), having several longitudinal angles, and intermediate 
flat faces ; 
(com.) W. P. Pritchard, author of ‘ Polynesian reminiscences ” 
(N. 3/224) ; 
(Latin), tall ; 
(Clas.), Procris,daughter of Erectheus, king of Athens,— 
married to Cephalus, who killed her in the forest, mistaking 
her for a wild animal (Cass, Lat. Dic.); (all :) plant dedicated 
to her ; 
(Latin), procumbent, lying for the whole, or greater part, of its 
length along, or close to, the ground (H.) ; 
(Latin), offspring bearing, denoting, in its widest sense, repro- 
duction of plants by buds ratber than by seeds, whether by 
offshoots, stolens, suckers, bulbs in leaf axils, budding from 
the margins of, or from broken, leaves, or from fern fronds; 
also applied to the abnormal reduplication of flowers from a 
single flower, known as the “‘Hen and chickens” type ; 
it also applies to the production of young fern growth (on the 
fronds of ferns about, or near, their extremities (H.) (N. 3/ 
225) ; 
( Latin), prostrate, lying flat along the ground; 
(Greek), name given by Dioscorides to the Butter-burr (Pet- 
asites officinalis) to the inflorescence of which this plant is 
supposed to have some resemblance (N. 3/227) ; 
(Latin), allied to ; 
(Latin), luina flat along the yround (H.) ; 
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