Cucullate. 
Cuniform. 
Cuspidate. 
Cyme. 
Cymose. 
Deciduous. 
Dentate. 
Depressed. 
Disk. 
Divergent. 
Dorsal Sepal. 
Emarginate. 
Ensiform. 
Erose. 
Exserted. 
Falcate. 
Falciform. 
Fasicled. 
Fibre. 
Fimbriated. 
Flexuous. 
Floccose. 
Foveate. 
Free. 
Furcate. 
Fusiform. 
Geminate. 
Genus. 
Glabrous. 
Glaucous. 
Hastate. 
Herbaceous. 
Hirsute. 
Hispid. 
Humifuse. 
Hypochil, 
Imbricated. 
Infundibulitorm. 
Internode. 
Involute. 
Labiate. 
Labellum. 
Laciniate. 
Lamina. 
Lanceolate. 
Hooded. 
Wedge-shaped. 
Having the medial vein ending in a free point. 
Irregularly-branched inflorescence in which hi terminal 
flower opens first. 
Bearing cymes. 
Soon falling off. 
Toothed. 
Flattened from above downwards. 
The central part of a flower. It is a circular enlargement 
of the receptacle, usually in the form of a cup, flat 
disk, or a cushion. It may be lobed, toothed or crested, 
and in orchids is frequently highly coloured. 
Further apart at the summit than at the base. 
The topmost of the three sepals of an orchid bloom. 
Notched. 
Sword-shaped. 
Irregularly toothed; gnawed or bitten. 
Protruded beyond the other parts. 
Bent like a sickle. 
Growing in a dense tuft. 
An important potting agent. The fibres most commonly 
used are roots of osmunda, polypodium, Todea Bar- 
bara, staghorn, and elkhorn, while cocoanut fibre from 
the husk of the cocoanut and shredded ti-tree and 
mangrove bark also have been used successfully. 
Fringed. 
Bent in a zig-zag manner. 
Covered with wool-like tufts. 
Pitted. 
Not united (said of sepals and petals). 
Forked. 
Spindle-shaped, i.e., thicker in the middle than at the ends, 
Flowers or leaves produced in pairs. 
An assemblage of species possessing certain characters in 
common to distinguish them from other plants of 
their order. 
Smooth; having no hairs. 
Covered with a fine pale green bloom. 
Arrow-shaped. 
Having a succulent stem. 
Hairy. 
Bristling. 
Spreading along the ground. 
The lowest section of a labellum very greatly modified in 
such genera as Stanhopea, etc. 
Overlapping like tiles—usually referring to the arrange- 
ment of scales. 
Funnel-shaped. 
Stem between nodes whence leaves spring. 
Rolled inward. 
Lipped; generally having two lips. 
One of the three segments of the corolla of an orchid, 
usually greatly modified. 
Petals deeply fringed or indentated. 
A plate—the broad part of a leaf. 
Spear shaped; tapering at each end. 
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