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Corona or coronet, scaly or petal-like bodies, ititervening between the 



petals and the stamens. 

 Corymb, a raceme in which the lower stalks are longest, and the ni)])t'r 

 ones so shortened that the flowers are placed in one horizontal 

 plane. 

 Costate, provided with ribs. 

 Crenate, having rounded marginal teeth. 

 Cuneate, wedge-shaped. 



Cyme, a branched inflorescence resembling an umhel, where the flowers 

 seem to lie in one plane, the successive central flowers exnaiidiiifr 

 first. * 



Cylindrical, having a cylindrical shape. 

 Deciduous, falling off" after having performed its functions, as the calvx 



of Grewia occidentalis. 

 Decussate, crossing at right angles. 

 Dichotomous, divided by two's; forked. 

 Didymous, growing in pairs. 

 Dioecious, a plant is called dioecious, when male and female organs 



appear upon different individuals. 

 Distichous, regularly arranged one above another in two opposite rows, 



one on each side of the stem. 

 Divaricating, issuing at an obtuse angle. 

 Drupe, a fleshy fruit enclosing a hard nut. 

 Dry, not fleshy. 



Ellipsoidal, a solid with an elliptical figure. 

 Elliptical, pointed at both ends. 

 Emarginate, having a notch at the point. 

 Entire, without marginal teeth or incisions. 

 Epigynous, placed above the the ovary. 

 Fasciculate, standing in bundles. 

 Fastigiate, having a pyramidal shape, from the branches being parallel 



and erect. 

 Ferrugineous, rust- coloured. 

 Filament, stalk, bearing the anther. 

 Filiform, thread-like, slender. 

 Flexuous, waving, bent in a zig-zag manner. 

 Foliaceous, leafy, having the appearance and structure of a leaf. 

 Follicle, a fruit formed by a single carpel and opening by one suture. 

 Glabrous, smooth, bald. 

 Glanduliferous, bearing glands. 

 Glaucous, covered with a pale-green bloom. 

 Globose, round, spherical. 

 Hermaphroditical, a flower is so called when both sexual parts are 



contained in the same cover. 

 Hirsute, rough-haired, covered with long stiff hairs. 

 Hispid, covered with long rigid hairs. 



Imbricated, sessile parts covering or overlapping each other likt^ tiles, 

 /wzpan-^mnft^e, unequally yoked ; pinnate leaves ending in an odd leaflet. 

 7?i/?ore5cence, a term applied to the way in which flowers are arranged 



on a stalk or branch. 

 Introrse, turned inwards towards the centre of the part of attaciiment. 

 Involucre, bracts surrounding a head of flowers in a whorl. 



