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A LIST OF THE NATURAL ORDERS AND GENERA OF BOMBAY 

 PLANTS WITH DERIVATIONS OF THE NAMES, 



H. M. Chibbbk, M.A., 



Assistant Professor of Botany, Agricultural CoUerje, Poona. 



Part III. 



{Continued from page 467 of thi'i Volume.) 



Genus and Authok. Natukal Date. Derivation and Common Name. 

 Order. 



Radermachera, Bignon. 



ZoU. and Mor. 

 Randia, (Houst.) L. . . Rubia. 



Commemorative. 



Ravenala, Adans. , . Scitamin. 



Ravenia, Veil. 

 Reimoardlia, Dmrt. 



. . Ruta. 

 . . Lin. 



1737 . . after Isaac Rand of the Botanic 

 gardens at Chelsea. — N. 

 Ranunculus, (Tourn.) Ranun. 1735. . a dimimitive of mre-z, a frog, be- 

 L. cause of the marshy habitat of 



many plants of this genus. 

 Buttercup. 

 Rapanea, Aubl. . . Myrsin. 1775. . 



Raphanus, (Tourn.) L.. Crucifer. 1735. . an ancient name. Radish. 

 Rauwolfia, (Plum.) L. Apocyn. 1737. . after Leonhard Rauwolp, physi- 

 cian at Augsburg, who travelled 

 through Palastine in 1753-65.^ 

 N. 

 17t!3.. said to be its native name in 

 Madagascar. — N. Traveller'' s-tree. 

 1827. . not explained by the author. — N. 

 . . after K. G. K. Reinwardt, 1773- 

 1822 Director of the Botanic 

 Gardens at Leyden. — N. 

 1822 . . do. do. 



1775. . its name in Guiana. 

 1832.. after Abel Remusat, 1785-1832, 



an orientalist. — N. 

 1790. . ren anthera ; the anthers are kid- 

 ney-shaped. — N. 

 Yi2>Ki . . resedo, to calm ; a medicinal 



name. — N. Mignonette. 

 1827 . , from rhabdos, a twig ; a shrub with 

 twiggy branches. 



Rhamnus, (Tourn.) L.. Rhamna. 1735 . . from Celtic ram, a tuft of bran- 

 ches. — Buckthorn. 

 Rhamphicarpa, Benth. Scroph. 1835, . from rhamphos, a beak, SLudikarpos, 



fruit ; the capsule is beaked. 

 Rhaphidophora, Hassk. Aracese. 1^43 . . ivom.rhaphis, & needle, And phoros 



bearing. 

 Rhazya, Dene. . . Apocyn. 1835 . . from the Arabic name. 



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Reinwardtia, Dmrt.f. Lin. 

 Remirea, Aubl. . . Cyper. 



Remusatia, Schott.f. . Aracese. 



Renanthera, Lour. . . Orchid. 



Reseda, (Tourn.) L.f. . Reseda. 



Rhabdia, Mart. . . Borag. 



