182 COMPOUND LEAVES. 



pudica digitato-pinnata, for there is no me- 

 dium between the two terms ; but they are 

 digitate, or composed of leaflets proceeding 

 from the top of a common foot-stalk, and 

 those leaflets are pinnate. On the other hand 

 ovato-lanceolatu?n> lanceolate approaching to 

 ovate, or elliptico-Ianceolatum, approaching 

 to elliptic, as in the Privet, Engl. Bot. t. 764, 

 whose leaves often assume that shape, are 

 easily understood. 







