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reiflora. Diospyros philippensis. Roupellia grata. Stephanotis 
at oer Phlox Drummondi. Jacquemontia cerulea.  Hyptis 
suaveolens. Bougainvillea glabra. Antigonon leptopus. Jatropha 
gossypifolia. Eucharis grandiflora. Ca oe mitis.  Livistona 
chinensis. Avena sativa. 25 species=10°5 
Period VI. Swietenia macrophylla (1872). Albizzia richar- 
diana. . Passiflora adenophylla. Flaveria repanda. Xanthium spi- 
nosum. Tithonia tagetiflora. Helianthus argyrophyllus. Evolvulus 
nummularius. Ipomea tricolor. Ipomeea Learit. Solanum sisym- 
brifolium. Herpestis chamedroides. Torrenia Fourniert. Ruel- 
lia tuberosa. Hyptis capitata. Peperomia pellucida. Euphorbia 
heterophylla. Euphorbia graminea. . Croton sparsiflorus. Croton sp. 
Ficus pumila. Sansevieria trifasciata. Sansevieria cylindrica. 
Furcrea sp. Typhonium inopinatum. 25 species =10°5°/,. 
A comparatively small number of the enumerated species have 
had Bengali names bestowed on them. According to the way in 
which they have been named they. may be grouped as follows. 
The list is, however, not complete 
I. Species with simple Bengali names the origin of which 
cannot be further = ee see that some of them are found in 
(later) Sanskrit litera 
1. Anona aren ata. 
2and 3. Tagetes erectus and T'agetes patulus—ct™i or ct@— 
genda, the former being the z¥ ctwi—bara génda, the latter the 
caté ctyi—chita génda. 
4. Ricinus communis—csatsl, bhéranda, and “4% éranda, the 
Sanskrit form of the name 
5. Cannabis sativa—ttal, ganja. 
6. Bizxa Orellana—avex, latkan. The connection with ateq 
drooping, hanging, is notat all clear, Also called a¢ratai, not- 
kona. 
7. Hibiscus Rosa-sinensis—8%1, jaba. This flower appears to 
have been used in ptjas from old times, and the word jaba is 
Sanskrit. As it is almost certain that Hibiscus Rosa-sinensis is 
not indigenous in India, but is a native of the ae Archipelago, 
the most probable hy pothesis i is that it was brought to India when 
aba like Ceylon, was practically an integral part of a Greater 
8. Pennisetum typhordeum—a' Gal, bajra. 
Il. second group consist - het the Bengali names 
of which ‘aie @ poetical ring about th 
1, Helianthus annuus—qaqft o , sarjja mukhi, 
with its face towards the sun, the English sunfiower. 
ne Hibiscus hirtus—Toara, : thos mani, the sun-gem. 
Mirabilis Jal — Fess a kéli, Krishna’s delight 
©, sae, Nanda dalal, the ay son "of Nanda, the Png of 
