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A LIST OF THE NATURAL ORDERS AND GENERA OF BOMBAY 

 PLANTS WITH DERIVATIONS OF THE NAMES. 



H. M. Chibber, M.A., 



Assistant Professor of Botany, Arjricidtural College, Poona. 



Part II. 



{Continued from 2Mye 290 of this Volume.) 



Genus and Author. Natural Date. Derivation and Common Name. 

 Order. 



1832. . after Karl Heinrich Ebermaier, 

 a German writer on medicinal 

 plants; 1767-1825.— N. 

 1871 . . from ekbole, a throwing out ; caus- 

 ing abortion. 

 1827.. from echinos, a hedgehog, and 

 Icaktos, the name of a spiny 

 plant. — N. 

 1737. . from echinos and ojis ; in reference 

 to the spiny globvxlar heads. — 

 N. Globe-thistle. 

 1818 . . the nutlets are provided with hook- 

 ed bristles. 

 1756.. from echis, a viper; alluding to 

 the smooth twining shoots. — N. 

 m\ . . irom. eldeipo to be deficient. Cf. 



'Perotis. 

 1759. . after G. D. Ehret, a German 

 botanical draughtsman ; 1708- 

 1770.— N^ 

 1843. . after J. A. i^'. Eichhorn, an emi- 

 nent Prussian. — N. Water- 

 hyacinth. 

 1735. . from elaia, an olive, and agnos, the 

 chaste tree, Vite.v Agnus-castus. 

 — N. Oleaster or Silcer-tree. 

 1763 . . ivoTCielaia an olive ; oil is expressed 



from the nuts. — N. Oil Palm. 

 1747. . meaning the olive-fruit ; the fruit 

 is a drupe with a single bony 

 tuburculate stone ; used to make 

 into rosaries worn by Brah- 

 mins and Fakirs (^. Ganitrus). — 

 N. 

 1787. . meaning the olive tree; the seeds 



are oily. — N. 

 1737. . from elati, a fir tree, to which the 



leaves are compared. 

 1776.. 



Eichhornia, Kth. 



ELa;AGNUs, 

 (Tourn.) L. f 



Elteis, Jacq. 



El.^ocarpus, Burm. 



Ponte. 



Eleeag. 



Palm. 

 Til. 



El^^odendron, 



Jacq. f . t 

 Elatine, L. 



Elatostema, Forst. 



Celas. 



Elatin. 



Urti. 



