NATURAL ORDERS AND GENERA OF BOMBAY PLANTS. 271 



Genus and Author. Natural Date. 

 Order. 

 Aster, (Tourn.) L. . . Compo. 1735 , 

 Asteracantha, Nees. . . Acanth. 1832 , 



Astragalus (Tourn. )L. Leg. P. 1737 . 

 Astylis, Wight. . . Euphor. 1853 . 



ASYSTASIA, Bl. t 



Atalantia, Corr. 



Acanth. 1826 

 Ptuta. 1805 



Atriplex, (Tourn.) L.. Cheno. 1735 

 Atylosia, W. & a. . . Leg. P. 1834 



Barringtonia, Forst.f Myrt. § 1776 

 Bartonia, Muhl. . . Gent. 1801 



Basella, (Kheede) L.. . Cheno. || 1747 



Derivation and Common Name. 



. meaning a star. — N. Star-floivev . 

 . in allusion the spines that surround 



the whorl of flowers. — N. 

 . a Greek name. — N. 

 , the orbicular stigma is seated like 

 a mushroom directly on the 

 ovary — hence the name. 



meaning not clear. — N. 

 , after Atalanta, the daughter of 

 SchcBneus. — N. Venus' Golden 

 Apple. 

 . the Latin name for the Orache. — N. 

 , a, without, tylos, a callus ; the 

 standard is without the hard 

 basal protuberances characteris- 

 tic of some genera. — C. 

 , derivation obscure. — N. Oats. 

 . after Averrhoes of Cordova ; an 

 Arabian physician who translated 

 Aristotle into Arabic. — N. Bilimbi 

 and Carambola or Kamralih. 



after Ali-ben-Shina — a Persian 

 philosopher, 980-1036. 



axon, an &yi\e,pous, a foot. 



from its Persian name Azederahht. 



from azimena, the Madagascar name 

 of an allied shrub. 



after Baccus ; in allusion to the 

 golden coloured berries. 



from balanos, an acorn ; in allusion 

 to the woody drupes. 



bearing clubs ; the flowers are inter- 

 mixed with clavate bodies. 



from balios, spotted, and spennwn, 

 a seed ; the seeds are mottled. 



meaning the Balsam Tree. — N. 



from its Malaya name. — N. Bamboo. 



after Joseph Baptist Banister, a 

 traveller in Virginia in the 

 seventeenth century. — N. 



after Rev. James Barrelier of 

 Paris of the seventeenth century. 

 — N. 



after the Hon. Daines Barbington, 

 F.R.S.— N. 



after Benjmin S. Barton, M. D., of 

 Philadelphia. — N. 



from its native name in Malabar. 

 — N. 



* Oxalidacese in E. & P. 

 •* ZygophyllaccEe in E. & P. 

 X Cooke gives Balsamodendron, Kth. 

 § LecythidaceEe in E. & P. 

 II BasellaceEe in E. & P. 



