88 PRONUNCIATION AND DERIVATION, 
ros-tra’-ta ... ... (Latin), beaked, having a narrow elongated process (H.) 3 
ros-ul-a/-ris ... .-- 1 (Latin), roswlate, of leaves, packed closely together, by short- 
ros-ul-a’-ris 4. ness of their internodes, over one another like the petals of 
a double rose; 
Rot’-ang ee ... Rotan (Malay), pared, or trimmed; name of the plant 
(McL. 3/751) ; 
ro-ta’-ta 50 ... (Latin), rotate, wheel shaped,—of a corolla, with short tube 
and flat spreading limb (H.) ; 
Roth-i-a -na ... .. (com.) Dr. A.W. Roth [(pr:) Roat], German botanist, author 
Roth’-i-i Ace iis of ba plantarum species presertim Indi orientalis,” 
(Ch.) ; 
Rott-le’-ri_... ... | (com.) Revd. Dr. Rottler, co-author (with Heyne and Klein) of 
Rott-le’-ri-a’-na | “ Herbarium Madraspatense”’; long time resident im 
Tranquebar ; 
rottt-le’-rif-or’-mis .... (Latin), resembling Rottlera (Mallotus) ; 
Srna i i im (Latin), round, nearly circular in outline (H.) ; 
rot-un’-dif-ol’-i-a  ... (Latin), round, with leaves ; 
Rou-pel-li-a ... wo. (com.) Rowpell family, encouragers of botany (N. 3/829) ; 
Rou-re-a ae ... (Guiana), name of one of the species, probably \N. 3/329); 
Rox-burgh’-i-a’-ce-xe. (Latin), Koxburghia Family, or Order ; ; 
(com.) of Dr. William Roxburgh, M.D., ¥.R.8.E., etc., author of 
Rox-burgh’-i-a’-pa_ ... } “Flora Indica”, published in 1832 by Rey. Dr. Carey, of 
Kox-burgh’-i-i ...) © Plants of the Coromandel Coast’’, 1795, and of “ Hortus 
benghalensis’’; the father of Indian Botany : 
Royl-e-a-na ... «vw (com.) of Dr, J. Forbes Royle, M.D., V.P.B.S., Botanist to the 
Indian Government, author of several botanical works ; 
rub-el’-ia Acc 
rub-es’-ces ey 
Rub-i-a’-ci-2... ... (Latin), Madder (Rubia [from rubus (Latin), red ; (all:) dye] ) 
Family, or Order ; ; 
rub-ic-au- lis... .. (Latin), with a red stem ; 
rub-ic-un'-da,.. ... (Latin), rosy red (H.) ; 
rub’-id-a se ... (Latin), reddish (H.); 
ru-bi-gin-o'-sum_—... (Latin), rusty red, dull red with slight admixture of brown, 
[darker than ferrugineus | ; 
rub’-ra ss ... (Latin), red, general term for all shades of red ; 
rub’-ré-c@-rul’-e-a ... (Latin), red and blue, red and blue on the same organ, or red 
changing to blue, and vice versa ; 
rub-ron-er «vi-a .. (Latin), with red nerves ; 
Rub’-us SAC ... (Latin), name of the plant used by Virgil, Caesar, and other ; 
often wrongly pronounced with the first u long (N, 8/354) ; 
ru’-fa ... ape ... (Latin), reddish brown (H.); 
*** © (Latin), becoming red, reddish ; 
‘yuefes’-cens ... ... (Latin), becoming reddish brown (H.) ; 
ru-go'-8us ... (Latin), full of wrinkles (H.); the surface being covered witha 
net work of lines, and the interstices convex ; 
ru-gul-0-sa ... ... (Latin), full of small wrinkles, or somewhat. wrinkled ; 
ru-min-a-ta ... ... (Latin), runuinate, as if cheiered, when a body is pierced in 
various directions by narrow Cavities filled with dry cellular 
matter ; 
((com-) G. E. Rumphius, or van Rumph [(pr.) fan Rooms] M.D. 
R ae | (Hanavensis), senior merchant, Consul, and Dutch botanist 
amph’-i-a 5 
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R hii of Amboynu in the Southern Molucca Islands, and author 
umph-i-l... ree 
of ‘‘ Herbarium amboynense” 1750 ; 
((com.) of G. E. Rumphius ; 
run-cin-a’-tus... ... (Latin), book-backed, curved in direction from the apex to the 
base; usually applied to the serratures of a deeply serrat 
or pinnatifid leaf ; 
ru-pic-o-a_... .. (Latin), inhabiting cliffs and rocks ; 
rus-cifol’-1-a ... ... (Latin), with leaves like Butcher's Broom (Ruscus) ; 
Rus’-cus es ... (Lat), name used by Virgil and Pliny (N. 3/335) ; 
Rus-sel’-i-a ... .. (com.) Alewander Russel, M.D., F.R.S,, author of “ Natural 
History of Aleppo,” 1756 (N. 3/835) ; 
Rus-sell-i-asnum  ... (com.) of Russell; 
