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applied to it in an adjective form, as spicate, racemose, 

 paniculate — like a spike, a raceme, a panicle, and so on. 



15. As we progress from below upwards in the examina- 

 tion of the various organs of the plant, we notice, in 

 approaching the flowers, that the foliage-leaves usually 

 decrease in size, so that those next to the flower, or from 



Fig. 59. Melia. The inflorescence a terminal panicle. 



the axils of which the flowers spring, are often very narrow 

 and sometimes scale-like. Such reduced leaves, bearing 

 flowers in their axils, are distinguished as bracts, and flowers 

 springing from the axils of bracts are bracteate. The passage, 



