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Lenticular.—Like a double convex lens. 
Ligulate.—Strap-shaped. 
Limb.—The flat expansion of a petal or leaf. 
Linear.— Much narrower than long, and with parallel margins. 
Lingulate.—Tongue-shaped. 
Lobes.—A division, rounded as a rule, and projecting. 
Loculicidal.—Opening along the back of the carpel. 
Loculus.—A chamber or cavity in an ovary. 
Lomentum.—A pod which splits up into 1-seeded partitions. 
Long-stamened.—Of stamens which are in two series, long and 
short, usually the outer. 
Long-styled.—Of di- or tri-morphic flowers where the style is 
long, and rises above the stamens. 
Membranous.—Thin, partially transparent. 
Mesocarp.—A mass of fleshy tissue between two other, inner and 
outer, coats of a seed-vessel. 
Mid-rib.—The central vein in a leaf or main vascular bundle. 
Monochasial.—When each fresh branch bears one only, succes- 
sively, in a cyme. 
Monochlamydeous.— With only one whorl in the perianth. 
Monoclinous.—Of a hermaphrodite flower when male and female 
organs are in one flower. 
Moncecious.—When male and female flowers are on the same 
plant. 
Monopodial.—A racemose inflorescence in which the main shoot 
grows upwards, and lateral branches are borne with a flower at the 
apex. 
Mucronate.—Bluntly terminated, with a sharp point. 
Multiple.—Where one fruit is collectively made up of the ripened 
carpels of several flowers. 
Nectary.—A honey gland. 
Nerve.—Veins in a leaf, fibrous bundles which ramify in different 
ways. 
Node.—The point in a stem where a whorl of leaves or a leaf is 
given off, often thickened. 
Nut.—A hard 1-seeded indehiscent fruit. 
Obcordate.—The inverse of cordate (qg. v.), the attachment at the 
narrow end. 
