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3CAPIGEROUS : scape-bearing. 



JCARIOUS : thin, dry and membranous, not green. 



JCORPIOID : said of an inflorescence with flowers in 2 ranks and the 



axis coiled like the tail of a scorpion. 

 JCROBICULATE : pitted. 

 SECT : suffix used to denote division of an organ to its base or nearly 



so into the number of parts stated by the prefix. 

 JECUND : with the parts or members all directed to one side. 

 SEPAL : a single member of the calyx. 

 >EPTUM : any kind of interior wall or partition. 

 IERRATE : with forward-pointing, sharp marginal teeth. 

 SESSILE : without stalk. 



>ETA : a bristle or long, stiff, needle-like hair. 

 IIGMOID : doubly curved in opposite directions, like the letter S' 

 IILIQUA : a fruit with two valves falling away from a frame on which 



the seeds are attached and across which a false partition is formed. 

 IINUATE : with a deeply wavy margin. 

 UNUS : a recess or re-entering angle. 

 JPADIX : a flower spike with a fleshy axis. 

 IPATHE : a more or less modified bract enclosing or subtending a 



flower-cluster or complete inflorescence. 



IPATHEOLE : a small secondary spathe on a partial inflorescence. 

 IPATHULATE : narrowly oblong with the end expanded and broader, 



more or less like a chemist's spatula. 

 iPHACELLATE : dark and withered, as though dead. 

 IPICIFORM : spike-tike. 



IPICULE : a diminutive or secondary spike. 



> PIKE : an inflorescence with sessile flowers on a usually elongate axis. 

 JPIKELET : a cluster of 1 or more flowers each in the axil of one or a 



pair of bracts and subtended by 2, rarely 1, empty bracts. 

 IPINULOSE : bearing small spines. 

 5PUR : a hollow, or sometimes solid, extension of some part of a 



flower. 



IQTJARROSE : with numerous spreading and outstanding processes. 

 JTAMEN : the floral organ bearing the anther and pollen. 

 JTAMINODE : a sterile or abortive stamen without pollen. 

 STELLATE : with its parts radiating like the points of a conventional 



star. 



TERILE : barren ; devoid of one or other of the sexual parts. 

 JTIGMA : that part of the pistil which receives the pollen. 

 JTIPE : the stalk or support of an ovary or carpel. 

 iTiPELLA : the stipule of a leaflet. 



