leaf-blade

• “The _leaf-blade_ is narrow, lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous but sometimes tubercle-based hairs occur just on the margin at the base of the leaf-blade close to the white band, varying in length from 1 to 6 inches and in breadth 3/16 to 5/16 inch; the margin is minutely and distantly serrate, midrib is quite distinct and there are three main veins on each side and three or four smaller between main ones.”

  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses

• “The branches are numerous and in some species spiny; the narrow, often short, leaf-blade is usually jointed at the base and has a short stalk, by which it is attached to the long sheath.”

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"

• “[309] Although it is generally admitted that the filament of the stamen corresponds to the stalk of the leaf, and the anther to the leaf-blade, yet there are some points on which uncertainty still rests.”

  Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants

• “In _Cephalotus follicularis_ rudimentary or imperfect pitchers may be frequently met with, in which the stalk of the leaf is tubular and bears at its extremity a very small rudimentary leaf-blade.”

  Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants

• “The correctness of this inference is shown, amongst other things, by the occasional presence of a leaf-blade in _Strelitzia juncea_ itself.”

  Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants

• “Just above the ligule and at the base of the leaf-blade there is a colourless narrow zone.”

  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses

• “The _leaf-blade_ is flat, linear from a narrow base, glabrous or base hairy; apices of upper leaves acuminate, and those of the lower obtuse, with finely serrate margins and a midrib prominent below, 6 to 12 inches long and 1/10 to 1/6 inch wide.”

  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses

• “The _leaf-blade_ is linear-lanceolate, rigid, erect, acuminate with a setaceous tip, nearly smooth, varying in length from 6 to 20 inches and in breadth from 1/6 to 2/3 inch.”

  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses

• “The _leaf-blade_ is linear-lanceolate, finely acuminate, base narrowed into a petiole, scaberulous on both the surfaces.”

  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses

• “The _leaf-blade_ is convolute when young, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, variable from 1/4 to 2 inches long and 1/10 to 1/6 inch wide, acuminate, flat or somewhat wavy, glabrous on both the surfaces, rigidly pungent, densely crowded and distichously imbricate in the lower part of the stem, base is amplexicaul, and the margin is distantly serrate and rigidly ciliate.”

  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses

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