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



Genus and Author. 



Natu£,al Date. Derivation and Common Name. 

 Order. 



LuisiA, Gaud, t • • Orchid. 1826, 



LuMNiTZERA, Willd. . . Combret. 1803, 



LuvuNGA, Ham. . . Euta. 1831 



Lychnis, (Tourn.) L. . . Caryophyll.l7.3o, 



Lycium, L. 



Solan. 173o. 



Lycopersicum, Hill.* . . Solan. 1765. 



Maba, Forst.t . . Eben. 



Macadamia, F. Muell.. Prot. 



Macaranga, Thou. . . Euphor. 



Machilus, Nees. . . Laura. 



Macronyx, Dalz. . . Leg. P. 



Madacarpus, Wight. . . Oompo. 



Madainctis, DC. 

 M^RUA, Forsk. 

 M^SA, Forsk. 

 Magnolia, L. . . 



. . Compo. 

 . . Oapparid. 

 . . Myrsin. 

 . . Magnol. 



Malachra, L. . . Malva. 



Malaxis, Soland in Sw. Orchid. 

 Malcomia, Br. . . Cruci. 



Mallea, A. Juss. 



Mallotus, Lour. 

 Malope, L. 



Melia. 



1776. 



1858 . 



1806. 

 1831. 



1858 . 

 1846. 



1837, 

 1775, 

 1775 

 1735 



1767 

 1778 

 1812 



1830 



Euphor. 1790 

 Malva. 1735 



Malpighia (Plum.) L. Malpigh. 1739 



. said to be called after Don Luis. 



de Torres, Spanish botanist. — N. 

 . after the Hungarian physician 



and botanist Steph. Lumniizer. 



1750-1806.— Z. 

 . from Luvunga-luto, its Sanskrit 



name. — Z. 

 . from lychnos, a lamp ; referring 



perhaps to the brilliancy of the 



flowers. — N. 

 . from Lukion, a name given to the 



Rhamnus by Dioscorides as 



coming from Lycia in Asia. 



Minor. — N. Matrimony vine. 

 . from lycos, a wolf, and persicon, a 



peach-indicating the inferiority 



of the tomato when compared 



with the peach. — N. Tomato or 



Loveapple. 

 . its native name in Tonga islands. 



— N. 

 . after John Macadam of Victoria. 



— N. Queensland-nut. 

 . a native name. 

 . origin of name obscure. — C. 

 . from macros, and ny.v, night ? 

 . from madas, to be bald, and karpos^ 



fruit ; the achenes of Madacar- 

 pus belgammends are however 



hairy. 

 . madaros, bald, aktis, ray. 

 . from an Arabic term ? — N. 

 . from its Arabic name maas. 

 . after Pierre Magnol, 1638-1715, 



a botanist of Montpellier. — N. 

 . a name used by Pliny. 

 . meaning tenderness. 

 . after William Malcolm, a London 



nurseryman who published a 



catalogue of greenhouse plants 



in 1771.— N. 

 . from the genus Melia, or from 



malleus, a hammer ; in allusion 



to the form of the style and 



stigma. — Z. 

 . onallotos, woolly. 

 . an old Greek name for a kind of 



Mallow.— N. 

 . after Marcello Malpighi (1628- 



1694) an Italian naturalist and 



professor at Bologna. — N. 



• Durand and Engler-Prantl give Mill, as the author of this genus. 

 j Bngler-Prantl give J. R- and G. Forst, as the author of this genus. 



