—— 
vir -id-is 
ae 
vir-o’-8a “+e 
vis’ -cid-a 
vis-co’-sa 
Vis’-cum 
vit-el-li’nus 
Vi -tex 
vi-tif-ol’-i-um 
Vi'-tis 
vit-ta’-ta 
vi-vip’-ar-a 
Vo-gel’-i-a 
vol-u’-bil-is 
yom’ -ic-a 
vul-ga -ris 
Wa gat-e-a 
Walk’-er-i 
Walk: er-i-z ... es 
Walk’ er-i-a-na aes 
Wal-lich’-i-a 
Wal-lich’-i-a’-na 
Wal-lich’-i-i 
Wal-su’-ra 
Wal-the’-ri-a ... 
wam -p ms 
War-burg’-i-i ... 
war-re-en -sis 
War-scew-ic’ -zi-i 
Wash-ing-to’-ni-a 
Wat-so’-ni-a’-na 
Weath-er-il’-li 
Web-bi-a’-na ... 
We -ber-a 
Wed-del’-i-na’-a 
Wei -hé-a i 
Wend-land’-i-a 
Wend-land’-i-a’-na ... 
Why’-té-i 
PRONUNCIATION AND DERIVATION. 105 
(Latin), green, a clear intermediate between pure blue and pore ; 
yellow, but not quite so bright as grass green (see prasincus) ; 
it passes into apple green with as hading of yellow and red; 
(Latin), poisonous; 
(Lain), sticky, coated with a sticky secretion (H.) ; 
(Latin), somewhat sticky ; 
(Latin), the name used by Virgil and Pliny [akin to izos 
(Greek) | (N. 4/184) ; 
(Latin), Egg-Yolk yellow, dull yellow just turning red ; 
(Latin), name used by Pliny for this, or a similar, shrub 
(N. 4/184) ; 
(Latin), with leaves like the Vine (vitis) ; 
(Latin), name used by Virgil, Ovid, Juvenal, Cicero, Tacitus, 
an‘ other authors (N. 4/184) ; 
(Latin), striped, with bands lengthwise (H.) ; 
(Latin), viviparous, reproducing by buds which root and form 
young plants while it is attached to the parent tree (H.) ; 
(com.) Dr. Edward Vogel, who crossed the Sahara Desert in 
Africa, and supplied svecimens for Oliver’s “ Flora of Tropi- 
cal Africa” ; 
(Latin), twisting spirally round a support (H.) ; 
(Latin), causing to vomit ; 
(Latin), common, ordinary ; 
Vagati (Mahratti) (from vdg’hants (Sanskrit), tiger-like; (atl:) 
thorns] name of the plant (McL. 1015, 1018) ; 
... (com.) of Colonel Walker, who, helped by his wife, did a great 
deal towards making known the flora of Ceylon, by collect- 
ing specimens, colouring figures, etc., and corresponding 
with Sir J. D. Hooker ; 
(com.) of Mrs. Walker, wife, and helper, of the above ; 
(com ) of Colonel Walker ; 
(com.) Dr. N. Wallich, one of the principal botanists in India, 
author of “ Plantz asiatice rariores,’’ ‘‘ Tentamen flore 
nupalensis,’ and the abandoned Wallich’s edition of 
Roxburgh’s Flora indica published in 1824. 
} (com.) of Dr. N. Wallich ; 
vdlasura (Tamil), vdlarasi (Telugu), name of the plant? 
(N. 4/195; MeL, 1020) ; 
(com.) Aug. Fried. Walther [(pr:) Varl-tair], 1688--1746, 
German professor at Leipzig in Saxony (N. 4/195) ; 
hwang, pt (chinese), yellow skin: name of the plant ; 
(com.) Warburg, German botanist and collaborator with 
Engler and Prantl ; 
(loc.) Waree, a kingdom on the west coast of Africa ; 
(com.) Warscewtcz, of Poland ; 
(com.) George Washington, the great American patriot (N. 4/ 
196) ; 
aoe William Watson, 1715—1787, Professor of Botany at 
Chelsea, near London (N. 4/201) ; 
(com.) of Weatherill, celebrated nnrsery-man ; 
(com.) of P. Barker Webb ; naturalist and traveller ; 
(com.) George Henry Weber j(pr: Vai-bair], 1752—1828 
German Professor at Kiel, seaport in Schleswig-Holstein 
Province of Prussia (N. 4/1203) ; 
(com.) of Weddell; |(pr:) Vai dell)], French botanist and 
traveller in Brazil, Treas. Bot. ; 
(African), name of the plant ; doubtful ; 
(com.) Henry Ladovic Wendland, 1755--1828, curator of the 
Botanic garden at Hannover (N. 4/205) ; 
(com.) also of H, Wendland, who, with Drude as companion, 
did much in collecting and making known, the flora of 
Australia; ; 
(com.) of Whyte, traveller in Africa, discoverer of the 
Callitris (Widdringtonia) of his name in Nyassaland in 1893 
