LEAF-APEX 



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Peepul (FICUS RELI- 

 GIOSA), and most of 

 - X\ \ Y' the CONVOLVULACE^E 



^dTT^AMl / ^T^. ^ and MENISPER- 



M A C E ^E, and in 

 ANTIGONON (and figs 

 31, 35); 



renifor m if the 

 blade is broader than 

 long, with a broad 

 shallow indentation in 

 the shape of a kidney, 

 as in HYDROCOTYLE 

 ASIATIC A and the 

 common garden plant, 

 PASSIFLORA LUNATA J 



auricled or eared if 



prolonged backwards a little on each side, in two lobes ; 



sagittate if these prolongations or lobes are 

 straight and sharp ; 



hastate if they diverge sideways as in TYPHONIUM 



TRILOBATUM. 



According to the nature of the edge or margin 

 a leaf is described as 



entire if it is quite even, with no indentations; 



dentate if with triangular indentations or teeth, 

 as in HIBISCUS ROSA-CHINENSIS (the common Shoe- 

 flower) ; 



serrate if the teeth point forwards as in LIPPIA 

 (fig. 24) and IMPATIENS CHINENSIS, L. (fig. 28) ; 



crenate if they are rounded, as in HYDROCOTYLE 

 ASIATICA and fig. 35 lowest leaf ; 



FIG. 32 

 SIDA CARPINIFOLIA, L. 



