xxiv FLORA OF MADRAS. 



CRISTATE : crested. 

 CUCULLATE : hood-shaped. 



CULM : the stem, usually hollow, of grasses and bamboos. 

 CUNEATE : wedge-shaped. 

 CUPULE : a small cup. 



CUSP : a sharp, usually rigid terminal point or beak. 

 CYMBIFORM : boat-shaped. 



CYME : a centrifugal inflorescence in which the secondary or lateral 

 branches continue to grow and may extend beyond the main axis. 

 CYSTOLITH : a mineral concretion in a cell of a leaf. 



DECIDUOUS : falling off, not persistent. 



DECLTNATE : bent or curved downward or forward. 



DECOMPOUND : repeatedly divided or branched or compound. 



DECURRENT : prolonged downwards from the base. 



DECUSSATE : in pairs alternately at right angles. 



DEFINITE : not numerous, of stamens not exceeding 15. 



DEHISCENT : splitting into definite parts. 



DELTOID : shaped like an equilateral triangle. 



DENTATE : sharply toothed, especially with teeth not pointing 



forward. 

 DICHASIUM : a centrifugal inflorescence in which all the axes end in 



flowers from below which lateral opposite branchlets arise. 

 DICHOTOMOUS : forked. 



DICLINOUS : unisexual, the stamens and pistil in separate flowers. 

 DIDYMOUS : in equal pairs or connected halves. 

 DIDYNAMOUS : in two unequal pairs. 

 DIGITATE : spreading like the fingers of a hand ; in a compound leaf, 



when the leaflets are all borne at the apex of the petiole. 

 DIMIDIATE : one half wanting or rudimentary or apparently so. 

 DIMORPHOUS : occurring in two different forms. 

 DIOECIOUS : the two sexes segregated on different plants. 

 DISK or DISC : a development of the torus within the calyx and under 



or outside the pistil. 



DISSEPIMENT : a partition in an ovary or pericarp. 

 DISTICHOUS : arranged in two vertical rows. 

 DIVARICATE : extremely divergent. 

 DORSAL : relating to the back ; the surface turned away from the 



axis. 



DREPANIFORM : sickle-shaped. 

 DRUPE : a fruit with a more or less succulent flesh enclosing a single, 



1-many-celled stone. 



