ABBREVIATIONS AND EXPLANATION OF TERMS. 



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ABBKEVIATIONS. 



Note. For a full account of the climatic regions of India, see (i Distribution of Forests 

 in India," in Ocean Highways for October 1872, and Transactions of Scottish Arboricul- 

 tural Society, vii. 88 (1873). 



Eastern India. (Sikkim to Burma, including Bengal.) 



North- West India. (Sindh, Panjab, N.W.P., Bandelkhand, and Rajpu- 



tana.) 

 South India. (The Peninsula, south of the Satpura range.) 



EXPLANATION OF TERMS. 



Acuminate, terminating in a tapering point. 



Estivation, applied to the relative position of the parts of the calyx and corolla 



in bud. 

 Arillus, a dilatation from the funicle or placenta more or less covering the seed 



as it matures. 

 Arrested (as applied to the axis), when the internodes are undeveloped. 

 Berry, a succulent indehiscent (syncarpous) fruit. 

 Caruncle, a thickening of the mouth of the ovule as the seed matures. 

 Convolute (in vernation), a leaf rolled longitudinally on itself. 

 Divaricate, spreading at a wide angle. 

 Flexuose, alternately bending from side to side. 

 Glahrate, becoming glabrous on full development. 

 Hyaline, translucent. 



[nterpetiolar (applied to stipules), between two petioles. 

 fntrapetiolar (applied to stipules), between the petiole and branch. 

 Moniliform, beaded, constricted at intervals. 

 Penidllate, tufted like a camel's hair brush. 



Ruminate, interrupted in internal structure, usually applied to albumen. 

 Scrobiculate, marked with minute shallow depressions. 

 Strigose, covered with short stiff more or less appressed hairs. 

 Strophiole, an appendage of the testa of some seeds, usually on the raphe, but 



independent of the funicle and micropyle. 

 Thyrsus, a compact pyramidal panicle. 

 Trinerved, with 3 nerves distinct from the base. 

 Triplinerved, with 3 nerves more or less confluent near the base. 

 Viviparous, developing leafy shoots from the inflorescence. 



