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Ctje Crsatfurj) of Matmy. 



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ox, the animal stands and roars with pain 

 and a sense of helplessness. The plant was 

 first described by Burchell, and named Un- 

 caria from the Latin word uncus ' a hook '; 

 but Decandoile, who retained the name Un- 

 caria for the cinchonal genus above allu- 

 ded to, afterwards changed it to Earpa- 

 gophytum, from the Greek arpax ' to seize ' 

 and phyton ' a plant.' It is a prostrate herb, 

 with opposite five-nerved hand-shaped 

 1 1 leaves, and purple flowers borne singly on 

 ! | short stalks rising from the leaf-axils. 

 | J The flowers have a small persistent five- 

 I < rarted calyx, with narrow lobes, one of 

 I which is shorter than the rest : a tubular 

 ! [ or funnel-shaped corolla, not puffed out at 



I j the base, with a nearly equal five lobed 



I I limb; four stamens, in two pairs of different 

 lengths: and a stigma formed of two 

 plates. The fruit contains an indefinite 

 number of angular wrinkled seeds. [A. S.] 



UXCATE, UNCIFORM, UNCINATE. 

 Hooked ; curved suddenly back at the 

 point. 



UNCI. Hooked hairs ; any kind of hook. 



UNCIA (adj. UNCIALIS). An inch. 



UNCINIA. A genus of cyperaceous 

 plants belonging to the tribe Caricince. 

 The spikes of inflorescence are solitary ter- 

 minal erect, simple androgynous, the upper 

 male, the lower female : scales one-flow- 

 ered, imbricated; stamens three; styles 

 three, rarely two cleft; achenes convex or 

 triangular. Steudel describes twenty-nine 

 species, mostly natives of the Southern 

 Hemisphere. [D. M.] 



UNCTUOUS. Having a surface which, 

 though not actually greasy, feels so. 



UNDERSHRUB. A woody plant of 

 small size, the ends of whose branches 

 perish every year. See Suffrutex. 



UNDULATE, UNDULATING. Wavy; 

 having an uneven alternately convex and 

 concave margin or surface. 



UNDULATO-STRIATE. Having ele- 

 vated lines with a wavy direction., 



UNEQUAL-SIDED. The same as Oblique. 



UNGERIA. This genus, named in com- 

 pliment to the Professor of Botany at 

 Vienna, includes a tree, native of Norfolk 

 Island, having thick entire leaves, shining 

 above, and covered below with stellate 

 downy hairs, the stipules deciduous. The 

 flowers are rose-coloured, growing in termi- 

 nal panicles ; the calyx club-shaped or bell- 

 shaped, its limb five-cleft, somewhat two- 

 lipped; the petals five, stalked, longer 

 than the calyx, their limb spreading and 

 destitute of scales; the stamens united 

 into a tube, adherent below to the stalk 

 supporting the ovary, dilated above, five- 

 cleft, each segment bearing within three 

 anthers ; the ovary stalked five-lobed five- 

 celled, each cell with a single ovule. Fruit 

 capsular, five-valved, five-seeded. The ge- 

 nus is included in Sterculiacece. [M. T. M.J 



UNGEROOT. An Arabic name for Gum 

 Sarcocol. 



UNGNADTA. The name of a genus of 

 Sapindacece, consisting of a North Ameri- 

 can tree related to JEsculus, with unequally 

 pinnate leaves, and lateral racemes of flow- 

 ers. The flowers are polygamous : each has 

 a five-parted calyx, three stalked unequal 

 petals, whose stalks are provided with a 

 little crest ; nine stamens adhering to the 

 stalk of the ovary, and to a sheathing scale- 

 like process originating from the thala- 

 mus; and a stalked three-celled ovary, with 

 two ascending ovules in each cell. The 

 fruit is unknown. [M. T. M.] 



UNGOOR. A Persian name for a kind 

 of Grape. 



UNGOOZEH. A Persian name for Asa- 

 ■ fcetida. 



I UNGUICULATE. A term exclusively 

 applied to petals which have an unguis or 

 stalk. 



j UNGUIS. Half-an-inch,or the length of 

 the nail of the little finger; also the stalk 

 i of a petal. 



| UNHA DE BOY. A Brazilian name for 

 ; the mucilaginous leaves of Caulotretus 

 microstachyus. 



i UNI. In Latin compounds = one : as 



unialatus, having one wing; unicalcaratus; 

 one spur; unicapsuluris, one capsule, and 

 so on. 



UNICOLOR. Uniformly of one and the 

 same colour. 



UNICORN-PLANT. Martynia. 



UNICORN-ROOT. The root of Eelonias 

 dioica, used in North America as an an- 

 thelmintic. 



UNICORN'S-HORN. Eelonias dioica. 



UNICUS. Growing singly. 



UNIFOLIATE, UNIFOLIOLATE. When 

 a compound leaf consists of one leaflet 

 only ; as in the orange-tree. 



UNIJUGATE, UNIJUGUS. Having one 

 rair of leaflets. See Conj ugate. 

 UNILATERAL. One-sided. 



UNINERVATE, UNINERVIS. One- 

 ribbed. 



UNINTERRUPTED. Consisting of re- 

 gularly increasing or diminishing parts, 

 or of parts all of the same size. See Con- 

 tinuous. 



UNIOLA. A genus of grasses belonging 

 to the tribe Festucem. The inflorescence is 

 in panicles or racemes ; spikelets three to 

 twenty-flowered, the florets more or less 

 imbricated. The parts of the flower are 

 inconstant in the species, some being 

 monandrous, whilst others are triandrous; 

 and some have the florets mostly sterile, 

 while others are nearly all hermaphrodite. 

 They are natives principally of North and 

 South America, and several species are 

 sufficiently hardy to survive the winters 



