NATURAL ORDERS AND GENERA OF BOMBAY FLANTS. 273 



Genus and Author. Natural Date. 

 Order. 



BiSCHOFIA, Bl. 

 Bixa, L. 



Euphor. 1825 

 Bixa. 1737 



BiACHiA, H. Bn. . . Euphor. 1858 



Blainvillea, Cass. . . Oompo. 1823 

 Blastania, Kotschy Cucurbit. 1865 

 & Peyr. 



Blepharis, Juss. . . Acanth. 1789 



Blepharispekmum, Compo. 1834 

 Wight. 



Bletia, E. & P. 

 Blighia, Kon. 



Blumea, DC. 



Blyxa, Noronha. 



BOCAGEA, St. Hil. 



Bocconia, (Phim.) L. 



BcEHMBRiA, Jacq. 



BCERHAAVIA, (Vaill.) 

 L. § 



BOMBAX, L.t 



Bonmnia, Thou. 



BoNNAYA, Link. & 



Otto. 

 Bar ago, L. 

 Borassus, L. 



Bosea, L. 



. Orchid. 1794 



. Sapind. 1806 



. Compo. 1833 



. Hydroch. 1806 



. Anona. 1825 



. Papaver. 1737 



. Urti. 1760 



Nyctag. 1735 



. Malva.* 1763 



. Convol. 1804 



Scroph. 1820 



. Borag. 1753 



. Palm. 1736 



Urti. 



1737 



BoswELLiA, Roxb. t • • Burser. 1807 

 Boucerosia, W. & A.. . Asclep. 1834 



Derivation and Common Name. 



. after G. W. Bischof, a botanist. 

 . its South American name.' — N. 



Arnatto-seeds or Annatto-seeds . 

 . after Dr. Blache, a friend of the 



nomenclator. — Z. 

 . after Blainville. 

 , from blastanein, to sprout ; c.f . 



Bryonia which is similarly 



derived. — Z. 

 . me ailing an eyelash ; probably al- 

 luding to the fringed calyx. — N. 

 . obviously in allusion to the ache- 



nes, which are compressed and 



black, and have ciliate margins 



and a ciliate rib on the outer or 



both the faces. 

 , after Don Louis Blet, a Spanish 



botanist. — N, 

 , after W. Bligh, British mariner, 



who wrote on a voyage in the 



South Seas, 1792. 

 , named after the botanist Karl. L. 



Blume. 

 . from bluxein, to flow ; a habitat 



name (occupying brooks). — Z. 

 . after the geographer Barbie du 



BocAGE of Paris, 1760-1825.— Z. 

 , after Paolo BoccoNi, a Sicilian 



botanist. — N . 

 . after George Rudolph Boehmer, 



a German botanist. — N. Rhea. 

 . after the Ledyen physician H. 



BOERHAAVE. 



. Greek for Cotton. — -N. Silk-cotton. 

 . named in honour of the French 



botanist Franz Bonami, 1719- 



1786.— Z. 

 . after Bonnay, a German botanist. 



— N. 

 . derivation uncertain. — N. 

 . a name given to the spathe of a 



Date-palm.** — N. Falmyra Falm. 

 . after Kaspar Bose, German 



amateur of plants at Leipzig, 



about 1700.— B. 

 . after Dr. Boswell, formerly of 



Edinburgh. — N. 

 . from houkeros, buffaloes' horns ; the 



corona lobes [suggested the 



analogy. — N. 



§ BcB7-havia in E. & P. 

 * BombaceEe in E. & P. 

 '* See, however, this Journal, Vol. XXI., p. 929. 



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