=Gamosepalous.= Composed of united sepals. =Glabrous.= Smooth; without hairs. =Glandular.= Bearing glands. =Glaucous.= Covered with a thin bluish or whitish deposit, easily rubbed off. =Glume.= A bract at the base of a spikelet of a grass. =Half recurved.= Curved half-way backward. =Hastate.= Shaped like an arrow-head, but with the basal lobes pointing outwards instead of backward. =Head.= A dense cluster of flowers, about as broad as long. =Hirsute.= With stiff coarse hairs. =Imperfect.= Flowers which contain either pistil or stamens, not both. =Incised.= With deep, sharp, irregular, divisions. =Indehiscent.= Not breaking open at maturity to discharge the contents. =Inflorescence.= A cluster of flowers. =Internode.= A section of stem between two joints, or nodes. =Involucre.= A collection of bracts at the base of a flower-cluster. =Irregular.= Possessing similar parts of different size or form. An irregular flower is generally distinguished by petals of unequal size or shape. =Laciniate.= Cut into narrow pointed lobes or divisions. =Lanceolate.= Shaped like a lance-head, several times longer than wide, and broadest below the middle. =Linear.= Long and narrow, but with about uniform width. =Linear-lanceolate.= Intermediate in shape between linear and lanceolate; narrowly lanceolate. =Lip.= The largest and most conspicuous petal in an irregular corolla, usually applied to the lower petal of an orchid. =Lobe.= A segment or division of any organ. =Leaflet.= One portion of the blade of a compound leaf. =Lemma.= One of the bracts in the spikelet of a grass, and described in the treatment of that family. =Membranous.= Thin or membrane-like in texture. =Monoecious.= Bearing stamens and pistils in separate flowers, but on the same plant. =Mucronate.= Tipped with a short small abrupt tip. =Node.= A joint of a stem, at which leaves are borne and branches appear. =Oblanceolate.= Reversed lanceolate in shape. =Oblique.= With unequal sides. =Oblong.= Somewhat rectangular in shape, with parallel sides. =Oblong-lanceolate.= Intermediate in shape between oblong and lanceolate. =Oblong-spatulate.= Intermediate in shape between oblong and spatulate. =Obovate.= Reversed ovate in shape. =Obtuse.= Blunt-tipped; terminating in an obtuse angle. =Odd-pinnate.= A compound leaf terminating in a single leaflet. =Once-compound.= A compound leaf bearing leaflets at the end or along the sides of the main axis. =Once-pinnate.= A compound leaf bearing leaflets along the sides of the axis. =Open sheath.= A leaf-sheath with separate margins. =Opposite.= Situated in pairs on opposite sides of the stem or axis. =Ovary.= The basal, usually swollen portion of the pistil, within which the seeds are produced. =Ovate.= Egg-shape in outline. =Ovate-lanceolate.= Intermediate in shape between ovate and lanceolate; broadly lanceolate or narrowly ovate.