NATURAL ORDERS AND GENERA OF BOMBAY PLANTS. 453 



Genus and Author. Naxukal 

 Order. 



Microcarpaea, R. Br. . . Scroph. 



MicRocHLOA, R. Br. . . Gram. 



Micrococca, Benth. . . Euphor. 

 MiCROMERiA, Benth. . . Labiat. 



Microptera, Benth. . . Orchid. 



Microrhynchus, Less. . . Oompo. 1832 



Microstachys, A. Juss. . Euphor. 

 MiCROSXYLis, Nutt.f . . Orchid. 



MiCROTROPis, Wall. . . Celas. 

 Mikania, Willd. . . Oompo. 



Date. Derivation and Common Name. 



MiiiusA, Lesch. 



Anona. 



MiLLETTiA * W. & A... Leo:. P. 



Millingtonia, Roxb. . . 



MiLLINGTONIA, L. f . . . 



Sabia. 1834. 



Bienon. 1781 . 



Mimosa, L. f 



MiMULUS, L. ' ' -■ 



MiMUSOPS, L. t J 



abi 



Mina, Llav. & Lex. . 

 Mirabilis, (Riv.) L. . 



MiTRAGYNE, Korth.f . 

 MiTRASACME, Labill. 



Leg. Mimo.1737. 

 Scroph. 1741 , 

 Sapot. 



Convol. 



Nyct. 



Rubia. 

 Logan. 



MiTREOLA, L. 



Mniopsis, Mart. & Zucc. 



Logan. 1737. . 

 Podostemon. 1822 



1810 . . from micros and harpos, in allusion 



to the very minute capsules. 

 1810. . from micros and chloa, meaning a 



small grass ; they are only two 



to six inches high. 

 1849 . . the cocci are small. 

 1829 . . from micros, small, and merioa, 



part ; all parts are very small. 

 . . from mikros, small, and pera, a 



pouch ; in allusion to the form 



of the labellum. — Z. 

 . . the achenes look like minute 



beaks. 



1824 . . the spikes are short. 

 1818 . . the column is usually very short 



with two spreading arms. 

 1831 . ^ the petals are connate. 

 1803.. after Joseph Mikan, 1743-1814, 



Professor of Botany at Prague. 



— N. 

 1832.. after J. Minus Voixolinos, who 



lived in the sixteenth century, 



author of De Hortorum Cultura. 



— Z. 

 1834.. after J. A. Millet, a French 



botanist. — N. 



commemorative . 



in honour of Thomas Millington, 

 an English botanist. — Indian 

 Cork-tree, 

 mimosa, mimic ; the leaves mimic 

 animal sensibility. — N. Sensi- 

 tive-plant. 

 from mionos, an actor ; its Latin 

 diminutive is mimulus. Monkey- 

 jlotoL r. 

 1747. . from viimo, an ape, and opus, face; 

 a fanciful resemblance in the 

 flower (Drury). 

 1824. . synonym Ipomoea. 

 1735. . meaning wonderful. — N. Four 



o'clock floicer or Marvel of Peru. 

 1839 . . the stigma is mitriform. 

 1804. . from mitra, a mitre, and acme, a 

 point ; in reference to the form 

 of the capsule, 

 signifies a small mitre ; the capsule 



is referred to. 

 . from mnion and opsis, meaning 

 looking like moss. 



In Durand"s Index (text) and in Nicholson's Dictionary of Gardening- Milletia. 



