xxviii FLORA OF MADRAS. 



LABIATE : lipped, i. e. divided at the apex to shape like lips, usually 2. 



LACINIATE : irregularly cut into narrow lobes. 



LACUNOSE : a surface covered with depressions, or perforated with 



holes. 



LAMELLA : a thin plate. 

 LAMINA : the blade of a leaf. 



LAN ATE : clothed with woolly and intergrown hairs. 

 LANCEOLATE : shaped like a lance-head. 

 LEGUME : a 1 -celled, 2-valved, dehiscent fruit. 

 LENTICEL : lenticular corky spots on young bark. 

 LENTICULAR : shaped like a biconvex lens. 

 LEPIDOTE : beset with small scurfy scales. 

 LIGNIFIED : converted into wood. 

 LIGULE : a strap-shaped organ ; in grasses and some sedges a narrow 



transverse appendage at the base of the leaf within. 

 LINEAR : several times longer than wide. 

 LINEOLATE : marked with fine or obscure lines. 

 LIP : one of the sections of a lipped organ ; in orchids the third petal, 



which is usually enlarged and dissimilar to the others ; also used 



in other flowers for a petal distinct in form from the others. 

 LOBE : any division of an organ, or specially a rounded division or 



projection. 

 LOCULE : a cell. 

 LOMENTUM : a legume contracted between the seeds and falling apart 



when mature at the constriction between the seeds. 

 LORATE : strap-shaped. 

 LUNATE : crescent- or halfmoon-shaped. 

 LYRATE : pinnatifid with the terminal lobe large and rounded and the 



lower lobes small. 



MACROPODAL : long-footed or long-stalked. 



MARCESCENT : remaining attached after withering. 



MERICARP : a portion of a fruit which splits away and simulates a 



perfect fruit. 

 -MEROUS : a suffix used in combination to indicate the number of 



the parts, e. g. trimerous in threes. 

 MESOCARP : the middle layer of a pericarp. 

 MITRIFORM : mitre -shaped. 

 MONILIFORM : resembling a string of beads. 

 MONOECIOUS : with the male and female parts in different flowers but 



on the same individual plant. 

 MUCOUS : slimy. 



