282 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HIST. SOCIETY, Vol. XXIV. 



Genus and Author. Natural Date. 



Order. 

 CocHLOsPERMUM, Bixa. 1822 



Kth.t 

 Cocos, L. . . Palm. 1753 



Codiseum, Rumph. . . Euphor. 1824 



CcRloglossum, Hartm... Orchid. 1820 

 Rubia. 1735 



Cojffea, L 



Coix, L. 



Cola, Schott. &, Endl 



COLDENIA, L. 



Colea, Boj. 



. Gram. 1737 



. Stercul. 1832 



. Boragin. 1747 



. Bignon. 1837 



ColebroOkea, Sm. . . Labiat. 1806 



Coleospadix, Becc. 

 CoLEUS, Lour, t 



Collcsa, DO. 

 CoUinsia, Nutt. 



Palm. 1885 

 Labiat. 1790 



. Leg. P. 1825 

 . Scroph. 1817 



Oolocasia. Schott. . . Aracefe. 1832 

 CoLUBRiNA, Rich. . . Rhamna. 1827 



Colutea, (Tourn.) L. . . Leg. P. .1735 



Colvillea, Boj. 



COMBKBXUM, L.f 

 COMETES, L. 



Leg. O. 1834 

 Combret. 1737 

 lUeceb.* 1767 



CoscMBLiNA, (Plum.) L. Commel. 1735 



Commiphora, Jacq.f. . Burser. 1797 

 Congea, Roxb. . . Verben. 1819 



Derivation a.nd Common Name. 



the seeds are cochleate or shell- 

 like.— N. 



from Portuguese coco, a monkey ; 

 after a fancied resemblance of 

 the bracts to a monkey's head. — 

 N. Cocoanut. 



from codebo, its Malayan name. — N. 

 Croton. 



Koilos, hollow, and glossa, tongue. 



a province in Naria, Africa. — N. 

 Coffee. 



a name used by Theophrastus. — N. 

 JoVs-tears. 



its native name. — N. Goura-nut 

 or Kola-nut-tree. 



in honour of Conwallades Colden, 

 a North-American botanist of 

 the eighteenth century. — N. 



in honour of General Sir G. Lowry 

 Cole, a governor of the Mauri- 

 tius. — N. 



in honour of Henry Thomas Cole- 

 BRooKE, a botanist — N. 



the spadix is sheathed. 



from koleos, a sheath ; the filaments 

 are connate into a sheath sepa- 

 rate from the corolla. — N. 

 Indian-borage. 



after Luigi Colla, a botanist, who 

 flourished in 1833-37.— Z. 



after Zaccheus Collins, once Vice- 

 President of the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences of Philadel- 

 phia. — N. 



a Greek name. — N. Taro or Allu. 



from coluber, a snake ; in allusion 

 to the twisted filaments.: — N. 



probably from koluo, to amputate ; 

 the shrubs are said to die if the 

 branches are cut. — N. Bladder- 



an ancient name. — N. 



probably in allusion to the numer- 

 ous comose pinnatipartite yellow- 

 ish-red bracts whose ultimate 

 segments are needle-like. 



after Kaspar (1667-1731) and 

 Johann (1629-1698) Commelin, 

 Dutch botanists. — N. 



Kommi, gum, phero, to bear. 



after an East Indian name. — B. 

 and Z. 



Caiyophyllacese in E. & P. 



