xxxiv FLORA OF MADRAS. 



STIPITATE : stalked. 



STIPULE : one of a pair of appendages borne on each side of the base 



of the leaves or petioles of many plants. 



STOLON : a sucker ; any basal branch that is disposed to form roots. 

 STOMA : an aperture in the epidermis of young branches. 

 STRAMINEOUS : straw-coloured. 



STRIATE : marked with longitudinal, parallel fine lines. 

 STRIGOSE : beset with sharp-pointed, appressed, straight, stiff hairs. 

 STROBILATE : resembling the cone of conifers ; an inflorescence largely 



made up of imbricating scales. 



STROPHIOLE : an appendage to the hilum of some seeds. 

 STYLE : that part of the pistil between the carpel and the stigma. 

 STYLOPOD : an enlargement at the base of some styles. 

 SUB- : a prefix implying an approach to the condition indicated by 



the suffix without quite attaining to it ; also giving the sense of 



subordinate to. 



SUBULATE : awl-shaped ; slender, terete and tapering to a sharp tip. 

 SUCCULENT : soft and juicy. 

 SULCATE : grooved or furrowed. 



SUTURE : a junction or seam of union ; line of opening. 

 SYNANDRIUM : where the stamens are united throughout. 

 SYNCARPIUM : a multiple or fleshy aggregate fruit. 

 SYNCARPOUS : composed of 2 or more united carpels. 



TABESCENT : wasting or shrivelling. 



TEGMEN : the inner coat of a seed. 



TEPAL : a division of a perianth, usually employed when there is no 



distinction between the 2 series ; one of the 2 unchanged petals 



of orchids. 



TERETE : cylindrical and circular in cross-section. 

 TESSELLATE : chequered. 

 TESTA : the outer coat of a seed. 

 THALLUS : a vegetative body without differentiation into stem and 



leaf ; the organ of attachment of some Podostemonaceae. 

 THECOUS : celled. 



THYRSE : a close panicle, more or less spindle-shaped or ovate. 

 TIGELLUS : a miniature or initial stem. 

 TOMENTOSE : densely matted with woolly hairs. 

 TORULOSE : more or less cylindric but with alternate swellings and 



constrictions. 

 TORUS : that portion of the axis of a flower on which its parts are 



inserted. 



