A flora of Manila - Rainforestation

Hilum; tlie scar of tlie seed, its place of attachment.
Hirsute; with stiff, beard-like hairs.
Hispid; with short stiff, bristle-like liairs.
Homogamous; a liead containing flowers of one
kind only.
Hooded; liood-like.
Hooked; bristles or other appendages curved at
the apex.
Horny; horn-like in te.xture.
Hyaline; transparent or nearly so.
Hybrid; a cross between two allied species.
Hypogynous; inserted muler the pistil.
Imbricate; overlapping one another.
Imperfect; flowers in which either the stamens
or pistils are wanting.
Inequilateral; unequal sided.
Incised; deeply and irregularly cut.
Included; enclosed, not exserted.
Incomplete; a flower in which the calyx or
corolla is wanting.
Indefinite; very numerous. •
Indehlscent; not splitting open.
Indigenous, native to a country, a.^ opposed to
introduced.
Indumentum; any hairy or scaly covering.
Indusium; the shield-like body covering the
fruit-dots in ferns.
Inferior; below some other organ; specifically
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tlie ovary is said to be inferior when the
floral organs grow from or near its summit.
Inflated; swollen and bladder-like.
Inflexed; bent inward.
Inflorescence; the arrangement of the flowers
on the plant.
Inserted; placed on or joined to.
Internode; the part of a stem between two
nodes.
Interpetlolar; between the petioles.
Introrse; turned or facing inward.
Involucre; a whorl or set of bracts around a
flower, or an inflorescence.
Involute; rolled inward from the edges.
Irregular; wanting in regularity, asymmetric.
Jointed; separate or separable into distinct
parts.
Keel; a projecting ridge on a surface, like the
keel of a boat; the two anterior petals of
a papilionaceous corolla.
Keeled; furnished with a keel or sharp longi-
tudinal ridge.
Kidney-shaped; resembling the outline of a
kidney.
Labellum; the odd, usually enlarged petal in
the orchids and some other flowers.
Lacerate; with margin appearing as if torn.
Laciniate; slashed; cut into deep narrow lobes.
Lamina; the expanded part or blade of a leaf.
Lanate; woolly, clothed with long and short
hairs.
Lanceolate; lance-shaped.
Latex; the milky juice of plants.
Lax; loose in arrungenient, the opposite of
crowded.
Leaflet; one of the divisions or bliides of a
compound leaf.
Leathery; tough and leather-like; coriaceous.
Legume; a simple pod which dehisces in two
pieces, like that of the bean.
Lepidote; covered with small scales.
LIgule; the strap-shaped corolla in many Com-
positae; the thin appendage at the ajiex
of tlie loaf-sheaths of most grasses.
Limb; the border of a corolla.
Linear; narrow, many times as long as broad,
the margins parallel.
Lip; the principal lobes of a bilabiate corolla
or calyx of irregular flowers.
Lobe; any projection or division of a leaf or
other organ.
Locullcidal; capsules opening by splitting
through the back of each cell.
Macrospore; tlie large spore when there are two
kinds.
Male; flowers having stamens but no pistil.
Margin; the edge of a flattened body.
Median; belonging to the middle.
Membranaceous; thin and soft, of the texture
of membrane.
Merous; part; used with numbers to denote the
number of parts, as trimerous or 3-merous,
with 3 parts, etc.
Microspore; the smaller kind of spore when
there are two kinds.
Midrib; tlie middle or main rib of a leaf.
Monocotyledonous; with only one cotyledon.
Monoecious; male and female flowers borne on
the same plant.
Mucronate; tipped with an abrupt short point.
Muricate; beset with short and hard or prickly
points.
Naked; wanting some usual covering.
Naturalized; introduced from a foreign country,
and established.
Nerve; a name for the ribs or veins of leaves.
Netted-veined; furnished with branching veins
forniing network.
Nodding; bending so tliat the suniiiiit hangs
downward.
Node; the joints of a stem, or tlie part bearing
the leaves or branches.
Nut; a hard, usually 1-seeded, indehiscent fruit.
Nutlet; a little nut.
Obcordate; inversely cordate, the notch apical.
Oblanceolate; the reverse of lanceolate, tlie
broader end toward the top.
Oblique; unequal-sided; slanting.
Oblong; from two to four times as long as
broad.
Obovate; a flat inversely ovate body, the broad
end upward.
Obovold; a solid body obovate in outline.
Obsolete; wanting or rudimentary.
Obtuse; blunt or round at the end.