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



Ghnus and Author. 



Natural 

 Order. 



Date. Derivation and Common Name. 



Nectandra, Roland . . Laurin. 1778. 

 Nelsonia, R. Br. . . Acanth. 1810. 



Nelumbium* Juss. 



Nemedi-a, A. Juss. 



Nemesia, Vent. 

 Nemophila, Nutt. 



. . Nymph. 

 . . Melia. 



1789, 

 1830. 



. . Scroph. 1803 . 

 . . Hydrophylll882 , 



Nbpeta, (Riv.) L. . . Labiat. 1737, 



Nephelium, L. t .. Sapin. 1767. 



Nephthytis, Schott. . . Aracese. 1857 , 



Neptunia, Lour. . . Leg. Mimo.1790. 



Nerium, L. 

 Nessea, Comm. 



. . Apocyn. 1735 . 

 ..Lythr. 1789, 



Neuracanthus, Nees. Acanth. 1832, 



Neurada, L. . . Rosa. 1742, 



Nburopeltis, Wall. . . Convol. 1824, 



Nicandra, Adans . , Solan. 



1763. 



Norysca, Spach. . . Hyperi. 1836 



. neMar, honey, ancr, a male. 



. in honour of D. Nelson, who ac- 

 companied Captain Cook round 

 the world. 



. its Cingalese name latinised. — N. 

 Sacred Lotus. 



. from nema, a thread, and edra, 

 seat or base. — Z. 



. an old Greek plant name. — N. 



. from nemos, a glade, and philos, 

 fond ; a habitat name. — N. 



. from Nepet, a town in Tuscany. — 

 Drury. probably from Nepi in 

 Italy. — N. Cat-mint. 



. an ancient name of the burdock. 

 N. — Litchi. 



. after Nephthys, the mother of 

 Anubis, the wife of Typhon. — N. 



. after Neptune, god of the sea ; a 

 habitat name. — N. 



. from neros, humid. — N. Oleander, 



. said to be from Nesos, an island. 

 — N. 



, from neuron, a nerve, and acanthus 

 after the genus A., the allusion 

 is to the bracts which are 

 strongly nerved. 



. from neuron, nerve.— Z. 



. the capsule occupies the middle 

 of the flat enlarged bract. 



. after Nicander, of Colophon, who 

 lived about 150 A. D. and wrote 

 on botany. — N. Apple of Peru. 



. after Jean Nicot, 1530-1600, who 

 introduced tobacco into France. 

 N. Tobacco. 



. commemorative. 



. after Nimmo, a botanist of India, 

 do. do. do. 



. from nola, a little bell ; the corolla 

 is referred to. — N. 



. from nomas, a pasture, and phileo, 

 to love ; a habitat name. 



. nomisma, money or coin ; in allu- 

 sion to the form of the pod. — Z. 



. from the Mexican name of a 

 Cactus. — N. 



. after the Spanish naturalist Fer- 

 nando de NoRONHA, who died 

 in 1787 in Isle de France. — Z. 



. the Indian name.^ — 7i. 



Doubtfully indigenous in the Bombay Presidency. 



