374 GLOSSARY. 



Placenta. That part of the ovary which carries the ovules. 



Flacentation. The arraagement of the ovules within the ovary. 



Plano-convex. Plat or plane on one side and convex on the other. 



Pollen. The fertilising grains or cells contained in the anthers. 



Polygamous. Having male, female, and perfect flowers on the same or different plants. 



Polygonous. Having many angles. 



Polygynous. Having many carpels. 



Polymorphic. Having many forms or stages. 



Procumbent. Applied to stems spreading along the ground for the whole or the 



greater portion of their length. 

 Proliferous. (1) Producing organs in an abnormal fashion, as leaf-buds in the place 



of flower-buds or seeds ; (2) having an excessive development of parts. 

 Proterogynous. When the stigma matures earlier than the anthers of the same 



flower. 

 Puherulous. Minutely pubescent. 

 Pubescence. A coating of short, soft, downy hairs. 

 Pubescent. Covered with pubescence. 

 Pulvinate. Cushion-like. 



Punctate. Covered with dots, points, or translucent internal glands. 

 Punctiform. Like a point or dot. 

 Punctulate. Dotted with minute pits. 



Pungent. Terminating in a stiff, sharp point, like a prickle. 

 Putamen. The dry endooarp of a drupaceous fruit. 

 Pyrenes. The name given to the distinct stones or nuts, each enclosing a seed, of 



which the putamen sometimes consists. 

 Pyriform. Pear-shaped. 



Quadrifarious . Arranged in four vertical ranks. 

 Quaternary. Consisting of four parts. 

 Quinate. Arranged in fives. 



Baceme. An inflorescence in which the flowers are borne on pedicels along a single 



undivided axis. 

 Badical. Applied to leaves and flowers inserted on a rhizome or stock, or so close 



to the base of the stem as to appear to proceed from the root, rhizome, or stock. 

 Badicle. The future root of the embryo. 

 Baphe. See Bhaphe. 

 Beceptacle. (1) The extremity of the peduncle (above the calyx) upon which the 



corolla, stamens, and ovary are inserted; (2) also applied to the short, flat, 



convex or conical axis on which the flowers of a capitate inflorescence are seated. 

 Beduplicate. Having the margins projecting outwards into salient angles. 

 Beflexed. Curved backwards. 

 Beniform. Kidney-shaped. 

 Bepand. Having a wavy or uneven outline. 

 Beplum. The false septum, framework, or process lek after the valves of a capsule 



or other dehiscent fruit have fallen. 

 Beticulate. Resembling a network. 

 Betrorse. Turned or bent backward. 

 Betuse. Having a shallow notch at a rounded apex. 

 Bevohite. Having the margins rolled outwards. 



Bhachis or Baohis. The axis of an inflorescence or of a compound leaf. 

 Bhaphe or Baphe. The fibrovascular cord that connects the hilum of an anatropous 



or amphitropous ovule with the chalaza; the point at which the nucleus and 



integuments of an ovule coalesce. 



