APPENDIX A 



SIGNS AND ABBREVIATIONS 



annual, usually monocarpic. 



strictly annual. 



or Q biennial. 



11 perennial. 



pj a tree or with a woody trunk. 



(? male ; ? female ; $ or 

 hermaphrodite (used when it 

 exceptional). 



oo indefinite, employed when the 

 number is too great to be easily 

 counted, as stamens or ovules. 



x hybrid ; also used to denote the 

 magnifying power. 



! seen by the author : thus Aotua 

 villosa, Sm. !, means that the type 

 specimen, or a specimen ticketed by 

 Smith has been verified by inspec- 

 tion ; if appended to a collector's 

 number, that is verified, as Bur- 

 chell 3641 ! 



* employed in divers senses, as (1) by 

 Linnaeus, De Candolle and others 

 to indicate that a good description 

 or figure will be found at the place 

 cited ; (2) when between the speci- 

 fic name and a third appended 

 name, denotes a subspecies ; (3) in 

 an index, shows that the genus, 

 species or variety, was ostensibly 

 first published at the place in- 

 dexed. 



t an obscure or doubtful species. 



section, the division of a genus. 



= equals, the sign of a synonym. 

 ' " or ' " '" have been used for 

 feet, inches, and lines respectively. 

 fjk micromillimeter, the one - thou- 

 sandth of a millimeter. 



The position of the cotyledons of 

 Cruciferae in the seed are denoted 

 thus: o = , accumbent ; o||, in- 

 cumbent ; < < o, conduplicate ; 

 o || |1, spirolobous ; o || || || for those 

 of the Diplecolobeae. 



char. character. 



cm. centimeter. 



fern. feminea, female. 



fl. flos or floret. 



fr. fructus or fruit. 



gen. genus. 



Hab. Habitatio t habitat. 



Hb.,Herb. Herbarium, as Herb. 

 Lugd. Bat., the Herb- 

 arium of the Leyden 

 University. 



ined. ineditus, unpublished ; it 



either remains in manu- 

 script or is about to be 

 published. 



Ic. Icon, pi. Icoms, figures ; 



Ic. xyl., a woodcut. 



1.0. loco citato , in the place 



mentioned ; 11. cc. locis 

 citatis, in the places 

 mentioned ; to avoid 

 repetition of titles. 



Lin. a line in measurement, 



linea, the twelfth of an 

 inch. 



m. meter or metre. 



masc. masddus, male. 



mm. millimeter, the one thou- 



sandth of a meter. 



n. numerus, number. 



Nat. Ord. Natural Order, Ordo natu- 

 ralis. 



p. pagina, page. 



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