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BURMA, ITS PEOPLE AXD PRODUCTIOXS. 



Euminate. 



Eimcinato. 

 Samai'a. 



Sap. 



Sap-wooil. 



Sarcocarp. 



Scape. 



Secund. 



Seed. 



Sepals. 

 Sessile. 



Siliculose. 

 Siliquose. 



Sori. 

 Spadix. 



Spathe. 

 Spatulate. 



Spermatia. 

 Spermogonia. 



Splicrothoca. 



Spika. 



Sporaugiuni. 



Spores. 



Squarrosc. 

 Stamens. 

 Stain inodes. 



Standard or Vex 



Starch. 



Stem. 



Sterigmata. 



Sterile. 



Stigma. 



Stipules. 

 Stoloniferous. 



Stiobilus. 



When the albumen of a seed is traversed by septa or folds of the 



testa, simulating the folds in the stomach of a ruminant. 

 A leaf when the points of its laciniee are du'ccted downwards. 

 A diy one- or two-seeded fi'uit, of which the pericai^p forms a 



membranous wing above or round the cell. 

 The blood of plants. A colourless fluid holding in solution all 



materials of plant-growth. 

 The newest or outer layers of wood in Exogenous trees. 

 The mcsocai-p. 



A leafless peduncle attached to the stem. 

 See Leaf. 

 An ovule which has been fertilized by the pollen, and made 



capable of germination. 

 The leaves or segments which go to form the calyx. 

 With a broad base. A leaf is so called when it is dii'ectly attached 



without the intervention of a stalk. 

 A fruit or pod, whose length is less than three times its breadth. 

 Pod-shaped, when the fruit or pod is more than three times as 



long as broad. 

 A group of sporangia. 

 A spike of incomplete flowers, which, when young, is enveloped 



in a large bract or spatlie. 

 A large bract enveloping the young spadix. 

 Leaves are spatiUate when narrow at the base and broader at 



the tip. 

 See Spermogonia. 

 The organs of fertilization of Lichens, composed of conccptacles, 



immersed in the thallus, containing jointed filaments termed 



steriymata, which produces minute corpuscles, or spermatid, 



the supposed fertilizing agents. 

 See Macro-sporangia. 



In a spika the flowers are sessile on the primary axis or spike. 

 An organ or cavity wherein spores are developed, within the 



cellular mass constituting the organ. 

 Minute membranous sacs, full of liquid fi'om which a miniature 



plant is produced. They are developed freely within the 



sporangium, and never adhere to its walls. 

 Leaves or bracts, with tips pointed and much spread or recurved. 

 The leaves or segments of the andreecium. 



liudimentary organs, which in female flowers represent ana- 

 logically the stamens in male flowejs. 

 ilium. In a papilionaceous flower, the upper petal, which incloses the 



four others in bud. 

 A vegetable product, tinged blue in solution by iodine, and whose 



component grains are of different shapes and sizes in dift'erent 



species. 

 That portion of the vegetable axis which grows in an opposite 



direction to the root. It may be annual, biennial or perennial, 



as it lasts one, two, or many years. 

 See Spermogonia. 

 A flower which is neuter. 



The apical and spongy termination of the sti/le. 

 The stalk of a. fungus. 



Appendages at the base of a leaf. Also its tendrils. 

 A stem is so termed when creeping shoots are produced from the 



axils of its lower leaves, which give rise to tufts of lca\e3 



with corresponding roots to each tuft. 

 A fir cone. 



