NATURAL OlilJjjUi;^ AND GENERA OF BOMBAY PLANTS. 799 



Genus and Authok. Naxukal Date. Dekivation and Oommon Name. 

 Ordee. 



VoGELiA, Lam. . . Plumb. 1792. . after Herr Vogel, a German bota- 



nist. — N. 

 Volkameria, L. . . Verben. 1735. . Commemorative. 



VoLUTARELLA, Oass. . . Oompo. 1826. . from volutus, rolled. 



Wagatea, Dalz.t . . Leg. Cses. 1851 . 



Wahlenbekgia ,Campanul. 1814 . 

 Schrad. 



Wallichia, Roxb. 



Wallrothia, Roth. 

 Walsxjka, Roxb. 

 Waltheria, L. 



. . Palm. 



1819. 



Verben. 1821. 

 Melia. 1814. 



Stercul. 1737. 



Washingtonia, Wen dl. Palm. 1879. 



PTe^era, Schreb. . . Rubia. 1791. 



Wbdblia, Jacq.t . . Compo. 1760. 



Wendlandia, Bartl. . . Rubia. 



1830. 



Whitlavia, Harv." . . Hydrophyll. 1846 

 Wigandia, H. B. K. . . Hydrophyll. 1818. 



Wisnekia, M. Micheli. Alisma. 1881 . . 

 Wistaria, Nutt. . . Leg. Papil. 1818 . . 



Wisteria, Nutt. 

 WiTHANiA, Paug. 



Leg. Papil. 1818. 

 Solan. 1824. 



WoLFFiA, Horkel. .. Lemna. 1839. 

 Wollastonia, DC. . . Compo. 1834. 

 Woodfordia, Salisb. . t Lythr. 1 806 . 



adapted from the vernacular name 

 Wagati. 



after a German botanist George 

 Wahlenberg of Upsaia, 1780- 

 1851. — N. Jlustralian Harebell. 



after Dr. Nathanael Wailich, a 

 Danish botanist, 1786-1854 ; he 

 worked on Indian plants and 

 was superintendent of tlie Bota- 

 nic Gardens at Calcutta. 



Commemorative. 



from Telangu name. — N. 



after Aug. Fried. Walthee, 1688- 

 1746, Professor at Leipzig. — N. 



after George WAshiNGXon, the 

 Great American patriot. — N. 



after George Henry Weber, 1752- 

 1828, Professor at Kiel.— N. 



named after a German botanist, 

 George Wolfgang Wedel, 1645- 

 1721, Professor of Botany at 

 Jena. — N. 



after Henry Ludovicus Wend- 

 LAND, a botanist of Hanover 

 1755-1828.— N. 



included under Phacelia. 



after John Wigand, 1523-1587, a 

 Bishop of Pomerania. — N. 



Commemorative . 



in honour of Casper Wistae, 1761- 

 1818, Professor of Anatomy in 

 the University of Pennsylvania. 

 — N. Kidney-bean-tree. 



wrong spelling of Wistaria. 



supposed to be in honour of H. 

 WiTHAM, a British geologist in 

 the nineteenth century. — C. 



in honour of J. F. Wolfe ; a 

 writer on Lemna. — C. 



in honour of Dr. Woiiaston, a 

 natural philosopher. — D. 



after J. Woodford, who wrote 

 about plants around Edinburgh 

 in 1824.— N. 



Whitlavia, Grny. in Eno^ler-Prantl. iTooA.. in Duranrl. 

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