NATURAL ORDERS AND GENERA OF BOMBAY PLANTS. 463 



Genus and Axjthok. 



Natural Date. 

 Order. 



PixHBCoLOBiuM, Leg. Mimo.1837 . 

 Mart.t 



PiTTOSPORUM, Banks. . Pitto. 1788. 



Pladera, Soland.* . . Gentian. 1814. 

 PlantagO; (Tourn.) L. Planta. 1735. 



Platanthera, Rich.t-. Orchid. 1818. 



Flatea, Bl. .. Olacin. 1825. 



Plati/chcete,l Boiss . . Conipo^, 1849. 



Platystojia, p. B.§..Labiat. .. 



Plecospermum, Tree . . Urti. 1847. 



Plectranthus, L'Herf Labiat. 1785 . 



Plectronia, L. . . Rubia. 1767 



Pleurogyne, Esch.|| . . Gentian. . . 

 Pleurostylia, W. & A. Celastr. 1834 



Derivation and Common Name. 



2nthecos lobos, the monkey's ear 

 lobe ; a local name translated. 

 — N. Rain-tree. 

 from pitta, pitch, and sporos, 

 seed. — N. 



, from pladeros, abounding in juice. 



. from planta, the sole of the foot ; 

 in allusion to the shape of the 

 leaves. 



, from, platys and anthera ; flat an- 

 thers. 



, from platys, flat. 



, from platys and chiton., a flat 

 tunic ; the inner pappus is 

 flattened. 



. meaning flat mouth ; the corolla 

 tube is widely campanulate at 

 the mouth. 



. pleco, to twine, and spermum ; one 

 cotyledon is very large and it 

 embraces the smaller one. 



, ironi plectron, a spur, and anthos, a 

 flower ; in reference to the corol- 

 la being gibbous above the base 

 from plectron, a spur ; there is no 

 spur in the Bombay species. 



pleuro7i, a side, and stylis ; the 

 style is lateral. 



after N. A. Pluche, who published 

 the " Spectacle de la Nature " 

 at Paris in 1732.— N. 



from plumbum, a disorder of the 

 eyes, which some species were 

 formerly said to cure (Drury) ; 

 plumbum, a medicinal name. — N. 

 Plumeria, (Tourn.) L. ., Apocyn. 1735. . after Charles Plumier, 1646-1706, 



a French botanist. — N. Khair- 

 champa. 



a Greek name for grass. 



'pous, a foot, and stemon, a stamen . 



Racemes solitary on long flexuous 

 peduncles, plumose from the 

 slender awns ; the upper invo- 

 lucral and the upper floral 

 glumes are awned. 



* Pladera is a synomum of Hoppea ; and its author is gfiven by Durand and 

 Engier-Prantl as Griseb. 



t PlatychcBta in Durand, and Index Kewensis. 



§ Playstome Benth. and Hook. f. 1876, and Platostoma Beauv. 1805, in Index 

 Kewensis. 



II Pleurogyne Griseb. 1839 ; Pleurog-yna Esch. 1826 in Index Kewensis, the latter 

 is omitted in Engler and Durand and adopted in Index Kewensis. 



Pluchea, Cass. . . Compo. 1817. 



Plumbago, (Tourn.) Plumb. 1735 

 L.t 



Poa, L. .. .. Gram. 1737.. 



Podostemon, Mchx. . . Podostemon. 1803. 

 PoGONATHERUM, P. B. Gram. 1812.. 



