NATURAL ORDERS AND GENERA 01 BOMBAY PLANTS. 441 



Genus and Author. 



Natural Date. Derivation and Common Name. 

 Order. 



Hemicyclia, W. & A. Euphor. 

 Hemidesmus, R. Br. . . Asclep. 



Hemigraphis, Nees . . Acanth. 

 Hemigyrosa, B1. . . Sapind. 



Keptage . . Malpigh. 



Heptapleurum, Gartn. Aralia. 



Heracleum, L. . . Umbel. 



Heritiera, Dryand . . Stercul. 



Herpestes, Kth. 



. Scroph. 



Herpestis, Gartn. . . Scroph. 



1833 . . the stigma is semiorbicular. 

 1809. . from hemi and des7nos (a tie) ; the 



filaments are subconnate at the 



base. Indian-sarsaparilla. 

 1847 . . meaning half written over ; in 



allusion to the corolla. 

 1850.. there is an unilateral pulvinate 



disk ; but the name may have 



nothing to do with it. 

 . . from hiptamai, to fly ; it has 3- 



winged samaras. 

 1791. . from Jiepta, seven, and pleuron, a 



rib ; in allusion to the ribbed 



fruit. — N. ; the fruit is, however, 



five to six angled. 

 1735. . after Heracles or Hercules. —N. 

 1789. . after Charles Louis L'heritier, a 



French botanist ; 1746-1800.— 



N . Looking-glass- tree. * 

 1823 . . from herpestes, anjj^thing that creeps; 



the plants have a creeping 



habit. 

 1805 . . do. do. 



Reterocarpus, Wight.. . Commel. 1853. 



Heterophragma, DC . . Bignon. 



Heterostemma, 

 W. & A. 



Heuchera, L. 

 Hevea, Aubl. 



. Asclep. 



. Saxi. 

 . Euphor. 



Hewittia, W. & a. . . Convol. 

 He.vaeentris, Nees . . Acanth. 



1845 . 

 1834. 



1735. 

 1775. 



1837 . 

 1832, 



the lateral valves of the fruit are 

 linear and empty, the dorsal 

 ellipsoid, subrugose. 



from heteros, different and 2)hragma,. 

 a division. 



relates to the corona which con- 

 sists of five large fleshy lobes 

 spreading horizontally from the 

 staminal-column, usually with a 

 large erect appendage on the 

 upper side. 



after Johann Heinrich Heucher, 

 1677-1747, of Wittenburg.— N. 



from its local name in South 

 America. — N. Para Rubber 

 Tree. 



commemorative. 



from hex, six, and kentron, a spur ; 

 the upper two anthers have 

 each one spur, and the lower 

 two anthers have each two 

 spurs ; Syn. Thunbergia my- 

 sorensis. Of. Dicentra above. 



comme naorative - 

 do. 



a name used by Dioscorides. — N., 

 Okra or Lady's-finger. 



* The leaves appear silvered on the lower surface. 



