Connective ; the continuation of the filament between the cells 



of an anther. 

 Connivent; converging. 

 Constricted; narrowed at some point as if by the pressure of a 



string. 

 Contiguous petals touch or overlap by their edges. 

 Converging ; their points gradually approaching. 

 Convolute ; rolled together lengthwise. 

 Cordate ; ovate, acute, with two rounded lobes at the base ; like 



the figure of the heart on cards : a cordate-based leaf is of 



any shape, but has the two lobes at its base. 

 Coriaceous ; leathery ; firm, dry, tough. 



Corm; a fleshy bulblike, but solid, not scaly underground stem. 

 Corneous ; like horn. 

 Corolla ; the whorl of floral leaves between the calyx and 



stamens, usually coloured, called petals. 

 Corymb ; a raceme vsdth the peduncles becoming gradually 



shorter as they approach the top, so that all the flowers 



are about on a level. 

 Corymbose ; in the form of a corymb. 

 Cotyledons ; the seed-lobes, often forming the first leaves of the 



plant. 

 Crenate \ with rounded marginal teeth. When these are again 



crenate, the whole is doubly crenate : not bicrenate, which 



means having two such teeth. 

 Crenatures ; the blunt rounded teeth of a crenate leaf. 

 Crenulate ; minutely crenate. 

 Crested ; having an appendage like a crest. 

 Crowned ; having an appendage on the upper side at the base of 



the limb, as some petals. 

 Cruciform ; four parts, as petals, arranged-so as to form a cross. 

 Crustaceans ; hard, thin and brittle. 

 Cuneate ; like a wedge, but attached by its point. 

 Cuspidate ; abrupt, but with a point starting suddenly from the 



middle of its end. 

 Cuticle ; the external skin. 

 Cylindrical; nearly in the form of a cylinder. 

 Cyme ; inflorescence formed of a terminal flower, beneath which 

 are lateral branches each having a terminal flower and 

 lateral branches again similarly dividing, and so on. A 



globose cyme has flowers so placed as to form a globose 

 mass. A scorpioid cyme produces only the external branch 

 of each pair, except the first. 

 Cymose ; arranged in a cyme. 



Deciduous ; falling off. 



Declining; straight, but pointing downwards. 



