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Zacintha
(so called from having been first discovered in the island of Zante, the ancient Zacinthus). ORD. Compositae. A monotypic genus. The…
Zalacca
(said to be the name of this genus in the Moluccas). Sometimes spelt Salacca. ORD. Palmae. A genus comprising about eight species of…
Zaluzania
(named after Adam Zaluziansky a Zaluzian, a physician of Prague, who published "Methodus Herbariae" in 1602). Including Chiliophyllum and…
Zaluzianskia
(named in honour of the same person as the preceding genus). SYN. Nycterinia. ORD. Scrophularineae. A genus comprising about sixteen…
Zamia
(from zamia, loss; a name given by Pliny to barren Pine cones, and hence applied by Linnaeus to this genus, in allusion to the sterile…
Zamioculcas
(from Zamia, a cycadaceous genus, and Culcasia, belonging to the Aroids; both of which the present plants are supposed to resemble)…
Zanthoxylum
(from xanthos, yellow, and xylon, wood; alluding to the colour of the roots). Sometimes spelt Xanthoxylon. Prickly Ash; Toothache-tree…
Zauschneria
(named after H. Zauschner, a German botanist). ORD. Onagrarieae. A monotypic genus. The species is a handsome, small, half-hardy shrub…
Zea
(Zea or Zeia was the old Greek name for Spelt, or some similar common Cereal, and is found as far back as Homer). SYN. Mays. ORD…
Zebrina
(the leaves are striped in a zebra-like manner). ORD. Commelinaceae. A small genus (two species) of stove or greenhouse, loosely decumbent…
Zehneria
(named in memory of Joseph Zehner, a botanical artist of Vienna). SYN. Pilogyne. ORD. Cucurbitaceae. A genus embracing about fifteen…
Zenobia
(so called after the famous Empress of Palmyra, who lived in the third century). ORD. Ericaceae. A monotypic genus. The species is a hardy…
Zephyranthes
(from zephyros, the west wind, and anthe, a flower; a fanciful name given by Herbert). Flower of the West Wind; Zephyr Flower. Including…
Zeuxina
(from zeuxis, a joining; so called from the coherence of the petals with the upper sepal). SYNS. Adenostyles, Psychechilus, Tripleura…
Zeuzera Aesculi
(Wood Leopard Moth). A handsome Moth, with a spread of wings of from 2in. to 3in. The body is from 1 1/4in. to 1 1/2in. long, and is rather…
Zexmenia
(an anagram of Ximenesia). SYN. Lipochaete (in part). ORD. Compositae. A genus embracing about twenty-five species of stove, greenhouse, or…
Zieria
(named after John Zier, a Polish botanist, who was a friend of Smith, the nomenclator). Australian Turmeric-tree. ORD. Rutaceae. A genus…
Zilla
(the Arabic or Egyptian name of the plant). ORD. Cruciferae. A small genus (four species) of half-hardy, suffrutescent herbs, inhabiting…
Zingiber
(from the Greek Zingiberis, used by Dioscorides, which is in its turn derived from the Sanscrit, and means in that language horn-shaped…
Zinnia
(named in honour of John Godfrey Zinn, 1727-1759, Professor of Botany at Gottingen). Youth and Old Age. SYNS. Crassina, Lejica. ORD…
Zizania
(adapted from Zizanion, the old Greek name of some wild grain; it is the word which, in the New Testament, is translated "tares"). Water or…
Ziziphora
(from Zizi, which is said to be the Indian name of the flower, and phoreo, I bear). ORD. Labiatoe. A genus comprising about a dozen species…
Zizyphus
(Zizouf is the Arabic name of the Lotus). ORD. Rhamneae. A genus comprising about fifty species of stove, greenhouse, or hardy trees or…
Zomicarpa
(from zoma, a kind of skirt, and karpos, a fruit; the pericarp of the fruit, when ripe, bursts at the bottom and remains, covering the…
Zomicarpella
(a diminutive of Zomicarpa). ORD. Aroideoe (Araceae). A monotypic genus. The species is a rather small, slender, tuberous-rooted, stove…
Zornia
(named after John Zorn, of Bavaria, 1739-1799, a botanical author). Including Myriadenus. ORD. Leguminosae. A genus consisting of…
Zosterostylis
(from zoster, a riband, and stylos, a column; alluding to the band which surrounds the column). Cryptostylis is now the correct name. ORD…
Zygadenus
(from zygos, a yoke, and aden, a gland; the glands are usually arranged in pairs at the base of the perianth segments). Erroneously spelt…
Zygopetalum
(from zygos, a yoke, and petalon, a petal; in the original species the sepals and petals adhere by their bases). Including Bollea…
Zygophylleae
A natural order of shrubs or herbs, very rarely trees, principally inhabiting the hot and extra-tropical regions of both hemispheres…
Zygophyllum
(from zygon, a yoke, and phyllon, a leaf; alluding to the pairs of leaflets). Bean Caper. Including Fabago and Raepera. ORD. Zygophylleae…
Zygostates
(from zygos, a yoke, and statos, standing; alluding to the two processes which stand out horizontally from the base of the column, and…