GLOSSARY OF TECHNICAL TERMS. 



GLOSSARY OF TECHNICAL TERMS. 



Acropetal or basifugal order, applied to flowers produced in succession from 

 a common axis, of which the youngest is nearest the apex as in 

 Onddium Pafdlin, Mmdevallia Chimcera and other Saccohrhiate Masde- 

 vallias, Gijjmpedium Ghamherlainiamim and nearly all the Cypripedes 

 in the section Selenipedia. 

 Acuminate, tapering to a point. 

 Acute, terminating in a shar[) point. 



Adnate, adherent, applied to unlike organs as the column and lip in 

 Epidendrum; the base of the sepals and the foot of the column in 

 Dendrobium, Bulbophyllum, etc. 

 Anastomosing, said of veins which sub-divide and join each other as those 



in the upper sepal of many Cypripedes. 

 Amplexicaul, applied to leaves that embrace the stem at their base like 



those of Dendrohhcm formoswn, and many others. 

 Ancipitous, two-edged as the pseudo-bulbs of Trichopilia, many Oncids, 



Odontoglots, etc. 

 Annulate, surrounded with raised narrow bands or rings as the fleshy stems 



of Phaius, Chysis, Mormodes, Cynoches, etc. 

 Anatropous, applied to ovules that are turned down upon themselves so 



that the true apex points to the base. See Fig. 10, page 87. 

 Auriculate, having small rounded lobes or ears as the small basal lobes of 



the labellum of many Oncidiums. 

 Bibracteate, having two opposite bracts of which one is usually larger 



than the other as in Cypripedium callosum, C. niveum, etc. 

 Bicalcarate, having two spurs. 

 Bicuspidate, having two horn-like points as the staminode of Cypripedium 



barhatum, C. Laicrenc^anum and closely allied species. 

 Bifid, divided into two from the middle upwards. 

 Bilamellate, applied to the crest of the labellum of Brassia, Odontoglossum, 



etc., when it consists of two small vertical plates. 

 Calceolate, calceiform, having the form of a slipper as the labellum of 



Cypripedium, Dcmdrohium moschaftini, D. CJirysocrepis, etc. 

 Campanulate, bell-shaped. 

 Capsule, the seed vessel. 

 Carinate, having a keel or raised line. 



Caudicle, the extension of the smaller end of a pollen-mass into a taildike 

 point as in most of the Ophryde^, in Calanthe, Eria and a few others. 

 See Morphology, Fig. B, page 22. 

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