January, 1912.] 



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Miscellaneous. 



Shamula 



Shaving 



Sheathing 



Sheet 



Shellac 



Shelter Belt . 



She Oak 

 Shocking 

 Shoeflower 

 ShoIa(Hind.) . 



Shothole Borer. 

 Shrub 



Sigmoid 

 Silage 



Silicula, siliqua. 

 Silkworm 



Silver skin 

 (Coffee) 



Silo 

 Silt 



Simple leaf 

 Sincama 



(Phil. Is.) 

 Sinna Durai 



. Panicum crus-galli 

 . Removing outer bark 

 . Enclosing in a sheath 

 . A form of rubber 

 . Refined lac 

 . Belt of trees to check 



wind 

 . Oasuarina 

 . Tieing in bundles 

 . Hibiscus Rosa-sinensis 

 . Bit of jungle in Patana 



country 

 .Small boring beetle 

 . Woody much branched 



plant, not over 15 



feet or so 

 , S-shaped 



Fodder plants compress- 

 ed in the fresh state 



Pods of cruciferse 

 . Caterpillar of the moth 

 Bombyx mori and 

 allied species 



Seed coat within parch- 

 ment 



Pit for making silage 

 A deposit from water 

 Unbranched leaf 



Pachyrhizus tuberosus 

 Junior Superintendent 

 Sinuate, Sinuous. With deep wavy mar- 

 gin 



Sinus ... A recess or notch 



Sirdar ... A kangani 



Sireh ... Betel pepper 



Siris ... Albizzia 



Sisal Hemp . . Agave rigida, var sisa- 

 lana 



Sissoo ..- Dalbergia sissoo 



Sleep movements Movements by which a 

 leaf places itself in 

 a different position 

 at night 

 Small Fennel ... Nigella sativa 

 Smooth Cayenne A variety or pine-apple 



Soboliferous 

 Soconuzco 

 Soluble 

 Sonth (Ind.) 

 Souchong 

 Sour Soil 

 Sour Sop 



.Bearing vigorous shoots 

 A variety of cacao 

 Dissolving 

 Ginger 



A coarse grade of tea 

 Soil with free acid 

 Anona muricata 



Soya or soy bean Glycine soja 



Spadix 



Spathaceous 



Spathe 

 Spathellule 

 Spathiform 

 Spathulate 

 Specific Gravity 



A spike-like inflores- 

 cence enclosed in a 

 spathe 

 ... Of the nature of a 



spathe 

 .. A leaf enclosing a spadix 

 ... Palea of a grass 

 ... Spathe-like 

 Spatula-shaped 

 Weight compared to 

 that of an equal bulk 

 of water 



Species 

 Spicate 

 Spiciform 

 Spike 



Spikelet 



Spinescent 



Spinulose 



Spore 



Sporophore 

 Spraying 



Spreading 

 Spur 



Squarrose 



Squash Gourd . 



Stamen 



Staminode 



Standard 



Staple 



Starch 



Stellate 

 Stem-bleeding 



disease 

 Sterilisation 



Stigma 



Stigmatose 

 St. Ignatius 



Bean 

 Stipel 

 Stipe 

 Stipitate 

 Stipules 



Stolon 



Stolonferous 



Stool 



Strain 

 Stratified 

 Striate 

 Strigose 



Strike 

 Striolate 

 Strobilate 

 Stump 



Style 



Styliform 



Stylode 



Subacute 



Subcordate 



Sublimation 



Subsoil 



Subulate 



Succulent 



Sucker 



. cf. botanical text-books. 

 . Disposed in a spike 

 . Spike-like 



. A raceme with no stalks 

 to the flowers 



. Unit of inflorescence in 

 grasses 



. Ending in a spine 



. With small spines 



. Germ of a fungus 



. Spore-bearing 



. Application of liquid 



insecticides 

 Leaning outwards 

 Slender hollow exten- 

 sion of some part of 

 flower 

 Scurfy 



Cucurbita maxima 

 Male organ of a flower 

 Abortive stamen 

 Posterior petal 

 Length of fibre 

 A carbohydrate com- 

 mon in plants 

 . Star-like 



. A coconut disease 

 . Making free from living 

 organisms 



Receptive part of a 



carpel 

 Provided with stigmas 



Strychnos Ignatii 

 . Stipule of a leaflet 

 . A stalk 

 , Stalked 



Outgrowth at the base 



of a leaf 

 . A runner 

 . Runner-bearing 

 . A plant from which 



offsets are taken 

 . A slight variety 

 . Disposed in layers 

 . With fine parallel lines 

 With pointed appressed 



hairs 

 . Give off roots 

 . Finely striate 

 . Provided with cones 

 . Seedling with stem and 



root cut short 

 . Apex of a carpel 

 ,. Style-like 

 . Abortive style 

 . Rather acute 

 . Rather cordate 

 . Evaporation of a solid 

 . The soil below the top 



6 or 9 inches 

 .. Awl-shaped 

 .. Fleshy 



. A shoot arising below 

 ground 



