xxvi FLORA OF MADRAS. 



FLOCCOSE or FLOCCULENT : bearing or clothed with locks of soft hair 



or wool. 



FOLIACEOUS : of the texture and shape of a leaf ; also leafy. 

 FOLLICLE : a fruit of one carpel opening by a ventral suture to which 



the seeds are attached. 

 FOVEA or FOVEOLA : a pit or depression. 

 -FRAGAL : a suffix indicating breaking or splitting. 

 FUCOID : resembling seaweed. 

 FUGACIOUS : soon perishing ; rapidly falling off. 

 FULVOUS : tawny. 



FUNICLE : the stalk present in many ovules or seeds. 

 FURCATE : forked. 



FURFURACEOUS : scurfy, covered with bran-like scales or powder. 

 FUSCOUS : dusky, greyish -brown. 

 FUSIFORM : spindle-shaped. 



GALEATE : helmet-shaped. 



GAMO- : a prefix indicating union, e. g. gamopetalous, petals united by 



their edges into one piece. 

 GEMINATE : in pairs. 

 GENICULATE : bent abruptly like a knee. 

 GIBBOUS : swollen on one side ; humped. 

 GLABROUS : without any kind of hairs. 



GLABRESCENT : with deciduous hairs and becoming glabrous. 

 GLAUCOUS : sea-green or blue-green. 

 GLOCHIDIATE : bearing barbed bristles. 



GLUMACEOUS : resembling the outer empty floral bracts of grasses. 

 GONOPHORE : an elongation of the axis of a flower bearing the stamens 



and carpels. 



-GONOUS : a suffix indicating an angled body, e. g. trigonous, 3-angled. 

 GYNAECIUM : the entire female part of a flower. 

 GYNANDROUS : the stamens adnate to or borne on the pistil. 

 GYNOBASIC : applied to a style arising from the base of the carpels. 

 GYNOPHORE : an elongation of the axis forming a stalk to the ovary. 



HASTATE : halberd-shaped ; with 2 acute basal lobes turned outwards. 

 HELICOID : coiled like a snake-shell ; applied to an inflorescence which 



is more or less coiled with all the flowers on one side. 

 HERMAPHRODITE : with the flowers bisexual. 

 HETEROGAMOUS : bearing 2 kinds of flowers sexually dissimilar. 

 HETEROGENEOUS : not uniform in kind. 

 HETEROMORPHOUS : not uniform in structure. 



