42 MORPHOLOGY 



NATE (fig. 41), as in bad or Wood-apple {^gle 

 Marmelos). 



In the palmate leaves the petiole bears at its apex 

 a number of leaflets which look like the fingers of an 

 outstretched hand. In fact, the compound palmate 

 leaf may be looked upon as a simple palmi-veined 



Fig. 41. — Ternate Leaf and Axillary Spines of Bael or Wood-apple 

 {^gle Marmelos) 



leaf with its blade cut up into as many segments as 

 there are radiating veins by the partial absorption 

 of the soft tissues of the blade between the veins. 

 When the outer leaflets of a palmate leaf point 

 towards the base of the leaf, it is sometimes desig- 

 nated as DIGITATE. As examples of palmate leaves 

 the following may be examined: amrul-shag {Oxalis 

 corniculata) (see fig. 50), shimool or Silk Cotton 

 (fig. 42), white-flowered hurh-hurhe {Gynandropsis 



