182 COMPOUND LEAVES. 



pitdica digitato-pinnata, for there is no me^ 

 dium between the two terms ; but they are 

 digitate, or composed of leaflets proceeding 

 fri)m the top of a common foot-stalk, and' 

 those leaflets are pinnate. On the other hand 

 ovato-lanceolatum, lanceolate approaching to 

 o\ate, or eUiptico-lanceolatum, approaching 

 to elliptic, as in the Privet, Engl. Bot. t. 7^4, 

 already mentioned, whose leaves often assume 

 that shape, are easily understoqd, 



