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Beaked, provided with a firm excurrent solid or narrowly 

 tubular prolongation which is often sharply marked off from 

 the body of the organ. (The term is not applied to leaves.) 



Berry, typically a fleshy indehiscent fruit with many 

 seeds. The covering or pericarp consists of a thin skin or 

 epicarp, a fleshy portion or mesocarp, and sometimes a firmer 

 hard inner portion or endocarp. Where however the endocarp 

 becomes stony or hard the fruit becomes a drupe. Examples 

 of a berry are the Jamun (Eugenia), MehrJi (FlacourtiaJ, 

 Brinjal (Solanum). The term is sometimes extended tc 

 include fruits which are not typical berries but which resemble 

 a berry in most characters. 



Bifid, 2- fid, divided into two parts about half-way down. 



Binate, 2-nate, two members arising together from the 

 same point. 



Bi-pinnate, pinnate with the pinnas, or some of them, 

 again pinnate. 



Bi-piunatifid, pinnatifid with the segments again pinnatifid. 



Bisexual, 2-sexual, containing both fertile stamens and 

 carpels with ovules. 



Blade, the expanded part of a leaf, bract, etc., as distinct 

 from the stalk. 



Bostryx or Bostrychoid cyme, see Helicoid cyme 



Bract, a reduced leaf. Bracts are usual on an inflores- 

 cence and often bear a flower in their axils. 



Bract eole, small bracts occuring on the axis of a next 

 higher order than that on which the bract is situated. If 

 bracts and bracteoles appear to arise from the same axis, the 

 bracteoles will usually be in a different position, thus in 

 dicotyledons if the bract is ventral the two bracteoles if 

 present are usually lateral, 



Bullate, raised between the nerves. 



Caducous, quickly falling off. 



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