rhod’-os tt ahs 
rhom-bif-ol’-i-a ze 
rhom-bo-i’-dé-a far 
Rhop’-al-os-ty’-lis ... 
Rhus’... ave eve 
Rhyn-cho-si-a 
Rhyn-chos-ty ’-lis 
Ri’-bés 
Rich-ard’-i-a-na_ 
Ric’-in-us 
ri-dic’-ul-a 
rig’-id-a 
rin’-gens ase Mae 
ri-pa’-rl-a ba ao 
Ritch-ie-a’-na ee 
Ritch’-ie-i ae 
ri-va’-lis ie , 
Ri’-vé-a Le Sol 
Riy-i/-na eee ane 
Rob-in-so’-ni-a’-na ... 
Ro’-bur oes eee 
Ro-bus’-ta_... sam 
Rod-i: 2’ -1 eee 
ro-hit’-tik-a ... wae 
Ron -delet’-i-a ae 
ro’-rid-us oan 
Ros’-a as ee 
Ros-a’-ce-w ... ; 
ros-a/-ce-us ... “Hy 
rOS-a-si -nen’-sis 
ros’-é-a oa asa 
ros’-6-0- pic’ -ta Ee 
ros-mar-i’-nif-ol’-i-a, 
Ros-mar-i’-nus wee 
PRONUNCIATION AND DERIVATION, 87 
(Greek), rosy pink ; 
(Latin), with rhombic leaves ; with four more or less equal sides 
and lateral angles obtuse (H); 
(Greek), rhombic im outline ; 
rhopalon, stulos (Greek), club, pillar ; (all’:) club shaped spadix 
(N. 3/299) ; 
rhous (Greek), name of the plant used by Theophrastus 
(N. 3/800) ; 
rhunchos (Greek), beak ; (all :) shape of the keel (See Pepilioneae) 
(N. 3/302) ; 
rhunchos, stulos (Greek), beak, pillar; (all :) shape of the 
stamino-pistillary column (N. 3/302) ; 
ribes [?revand (McL. 3/363)] (Arabic), name of Rhubarb 
(Rheum) wrongly applied to this (N. 3/303) ; 
(com.) of Achille Richard [(pr:) Ar-sheel Kee-sharr |, author 
of “Flora of New Zealand ’’); and his father L.C. Richard, 
two celebrated French botanists. 
(Latin), a tick ; (all:) resemblance of seeds thereto (N. 3/307) ; 
(Latin), droll, curious,; 
(Latin), stiff ; 
(Latin), grinning a term applied to a mounopetalous corolla 
haviug an unequally divided limb, the upper division, or lip, 
being arched, the lower prominent and pressed against it, so 
that, when compressed, the whole resembles the month of a 
gaping animal ; 
(Latin), pertaining to stream banks ; 
(com.) of Dr. Ritchie of Bombay, collected plants in Belgaum. 
(Latin), growing beside streams (H.) ; 
(com.) Auguste de la Rive ((pr :) O.goost der Jar Reey} physio- 
logical Professor of Geneya, Switzerland (N. 3/309); 
(com-) A. Q. Rivinus [(pr:) Ree-vee-noos | of Saxony, 1662-- 
1722, Professor of Botany andiMedicine at Leipzig (N. 3/309); 
(com.) of Robinson; itis not known whothis Kobinson is 3; a 
plaut called Rolinsonia, of Juan Fernandez island, was dedica. 
A y. Monsr, Decandolle to Defoe’s Robiuson Crusoe Treas, 
ot.) 5 
(Latin), strength ; (all:) durability of the wood; “hearts of 
Oak ’’ is used metaphorically, indicative of strength ; 
(Latin), strong ; 
(com.) Hugh Rodie, Surgeon resident »in Demarara, British 
Guiana, South America, who discovered the alkaloid Bibi- 
sina in Greenheart (Nectandra) as a substitute for quinine 
(Eno, Brit.) ; ; 
rohttaka (Sanskrit), red tree ;(all:) inner bark which is used 
medicinally ; name of the tree (McL. 762.) ; 
(com.) Witham Rondelet, 1507—1566, scientific physician, autho- 
rity on fishes and Algz (N. 3/313) ; 
(Latin), dewy, covered with little transparant elevations of the 
parenchyma (cellular tissue), which have the appearance of 
fine drops of dew, less opaque than in pr uinose (q.v.) ; 
(Latin), name used by Virgil, Horace, Evid, Cicero, Plautus 
and others (Cass. Lat. Dic.), although the o is long in English, 
it is short in the Latin (ef. Antigonon, liliifiorus, Croton, 
etc. |; 
es Rose (Rosa) Family, or Order ; 
(Latin), rose-like, or rosaceous, having the same arrangement of 
the petals as of a single rose ; 
(Latin), Chinese rose ; 
(Latin), pink, rose-coloured, pale crimson (See phoenicsus) ; 
(Latin), streaked with pink ; 
(Latin), with leaves like Rosemary (Rosmarinus) ; 
Ros, marmus (Latin), dew, of the sea; (all:) habit of the plant 
(N. 3/828); : 
