94, 
Son-ner-a -ti-a 
son-0’-ra 
soph’-er-a 
Soph’-or-a 
80°-ri ... 
So’-ym-id-a 
spar’-sum ees 
Spath-o’-dé-a 
Spath-ol’-ob-us 
spath-ul-a’-ta 
SPeC-1-0'-SA sve 
spec -i-0-sis’-sim-a 
spec-ta’ -bil-is 
spe-lun’-ce ... 
spheer-oc-ar’-pa 
sphier-o-i’-de-a 
Spheer-op’-ter-is 
sphe-noc-ar’ pa 
Sphe-nod-es’-ma 
spi-ca’-ta 
spi-cig’-er-a_ ... 
spi-cul-a’-tus ... 
Spi-na’-rum 
Spi-nif-ex 
spi-no'-sa 
spi-no-sis’-sim-a 
spi-nul-o’-sa ... 
Spi-re’-a 
spi-ra’-lis 
Spix-i-a’-na 
P 
splen’-dens ... 
spod’ os 
Spon’-di-as 
spon-ei-o’-sus 
spon-ta’-ne-um 
spor-angoi’-a ... 
Spren-ge’-ri . 
Spru-ce-a’-na 
aqua-ma’-tum 
squa-mo'-8a ... 
squar-ro'-si ... 
aos 
PRONUNCIATION AND DERIVATION. 
(com.) Pierre Sonnerat [(pr:) Pee-yairr So-nair-ar], 1749—1814, 
French botanist who travelled into New Guinea, the East 
Indies and China, (N, 3/459) ; 
(Latin), sounding (N. 2/138) ; grows on the coast, and reverber- 
ates the sound of the surf ; 
| (Arabic), name of a papilionaceous flowered tree (N. 3/459) ; 
(Latin) [from Greek, sdros|, heaps, applied to defined masses, 
of characeristic shape in the different genera, of sporangia 
in Fern ; 
Somida (Telugu) [genitive of somi,from svdmi (Telugu), deity ; 
(all :) used for sacred pillars in temples and tanks], name 
ot the tree (Mch. 3/862) ; 
(Latin), sparse, arranged at some distance from each other on 
the axis (H.); 
(spathé, eidos) (Greek), broad blade, resemblance ; (all:) calyx 
split on one side and resembles a broad blade or the spathe 
of palms (N. 3/467) ; 
(Greek), having a pod like a broad blade ; 
(Latin), Spathulate, plane, oblong or linear, with a broad round- 
ed apex and narrow base (H.); almost spoon shaped ; 
(Latin), beautiful ; 
(Latin), very beautiful ; 
(Latin), remarkable. notable ; 
(Latin), belonging to a cave or grotto ; 
(Greek), with globular fruit ; 
(Greek), with a spherical figure slightly depressed at each end ; 
Sphdira, pteris (Greek), globe, fern; (all:) the globose in- 
volucres) (N. 3/470) ; 
Sphén (G. Sphenos), Kargos (Greek) wedge, fruit ; 
Sphéen (G. Sphénos), desmé (Greek), wedge. fascicle; (all:) the 
form of the inflorescence (N. 3/470) ; 
(Latin), arranged in spikes (H.) ; 
(Latin), bearing spikes (H.) ; 
(Latin), spiculate, covered with fine, fleshy, erect, points ; 
(Latin), of spines ; 
(Latin), a marker of spines ; (all:) pungent rigid leaves ; 
(Latin), furnished with spines, (H.) ; 
(Latin), furnished with very many spines; 
(Latin), furnished with little spines ; 
speirao (Greek), to wind ; (all:) suitability of the plant for 
garlands; name used by Theopbrastus (N. 3/473) ; 
(Latin), spiral, as if wound round an axil (H.) ; twisted like a 
cork-screw : 
(com.) of Spiz, fellow traveller and co-author (with Dr. von 
Martius) of ‘‘ Travels in Brazil,’’ 1823 ; 
(Latin), glittering (H.) ; where, the lustre is more broken than 
in a polished surface ; f 
(Greek), cinereous (q.v.), ash-grey ; 
spondias (Greek), a plum, name used by ‘Uheophrastus ; (all :) 
resemblance of the fruit (N. 3/479); 
(Latin), spangy, of the texture of a sponge, porous and elastic ; 
(Latin), growing wild ; 
sparos angeza, (Greek), sporecoses of ferns ; 
(com.) of Sprenger ; 
(com.) of Spruce; botanical collector on the Amawon and Rio 
Negro rivers of S. America, did a good deal [together with 
Markham } towards making known, and disseminating, the 
American cinchonas ; ; 
; (Latin), be set with scales fixed at one end (H.) ; 
(Latin), rough with jagged projections, or— of leaves and scales 
—imbricated with tips pointed and spreading more or less 
at right angles from a common centre or recurved (H.) ; 
