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GLOSSARY. 
tiling is due to M. Gaudichaud, who met with it in the Moluccas 
—of introducing it to this country, to Mr. Cuming, who sent it 
to Mr. Batemann, with whom it produced its magnificent sceptre 
on the stove at Biddulph Grange, in June and July last. It is a 
very large, erect plant, with remarkably thick aerial roots, pro¬ 
duced after the custom of its kindred: sword-shaped, curved, two- 
ranked, hard leaves, averaging two feet in length, and a still 
longer spike of some score of flowers, each full two inches and a 
half across ; flat, leathery, and long enduring. But it is not 
alone for their size that these flowers are so especially worthy of 
notice. Their colour is indescribably beautiful. If you look 
them in the face, they are the richest golden yellow, spotted all 
over with crimson ; but when seen from behind, they are wholly 
a vivid purple, fading away at the edges into the violet of Cereus 
speciosissimus. So that regard them which way you will, there 
is nothing but the gayest and richest colours to be seen.— Bot. 
Beg. 59-47. 
GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED IN BOTANICAL 
DESCRIPTIONS. 
Glomerate. Collected together, so as to form a close head or 
cluster. 
Glottis. A tube, or throat. 
Glume. Floral organs of the grasses. 
Glutinous. Remarkable for an adhesive, viscid exudation. 
Granieorm. Resembling the ears of corn. 
Granular. Covered with small tubercles, like grains. 
Gregarious. Growing closely together. 
Grumous. Irregularly clubbed, or knotted. 
Gyrose. Turned round at the extremity, like a sickle. 
Hastate. Halbert-shaped. 
Herbaceous. A class of plants whose stems are only of annual 
duration, but whose roots continue at least two years. 
Hermaphrodite. Consisting of, or combining the two sexes. 
Hexagonal. Hexangular, six-sided. 
Hexasepalous. Composed of six divisions of petals. 
Hilum. The point of union between the placenta and a seed, 
indicated by a mark, or scar. 
