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Unguiculate. Contracted at the base into a claw. 



Urceolate. Urn-shaped; pitcher-shaped. 



Urn-shaped. Hollow and contracted at or below the mouth. 



Valvate. Opening as if by doors or valves (as a capsule) ; the parts of a 

 flower-bud when they exactly meet without overlapping. 



Veins. Threads of fibro-vascular tissue in a leaf or other organ. 



Ventral (leaves). Pertaining to the lower or abaxial side. (Floral organs) 

 That surface which faces the center of the flower. 



Ventricose. Swelling unequally or inflated on one side. 



Verticillate. Whorled; with three or more leaves or branches at a node. 



Vestigial. Pertaining to a vestige or remnant. 



Villous. With long, soft, unmatted hairs. 



Viscid. Glutinous; sticky. 



Whorled. Verticillate; with three or more leaves or branches at a node. 

 Woolly. Clothed with long and tortuous or matted hairs. 



