leaf-sheaths

Not only are there prickles on the 10-feet thongs, but the leaves and leaf-sheaths are thickly beset.

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

With remarkable rapidity one of the species shoots up a ruddy symmetrical, slightly tapering stem — smooth and polished where the old leaf-sheaths have been shed — to a height of 20 and 30 feet, producing leaves 15 feet long and 2 feet broad, small and crude flowers, and bunches of dwarf fruit containing little but shot-like seeds.

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

The _leaf-sheaths_ are sparsely hairy or glabrous, the lower somewhat compressed and the upper terete.

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

The _leaf-sheaths_ are terete or somewhat compressed, glabrous, sometimes ciliated near the node and shorter than the internode.

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

The _leaf-sheaths_ are shorter than the internodes, flat, compressed, glabrous, with a few hairs or not at the mouth and with membranous margins; the uppermost sheath is spathiform enclosing the inflorescence when young.

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

The _leaf-sheaths_ are compressed, distichous, ciliate.

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

It is perennial, sending up from an underground root-stock an apparent stem 15 or 20 ft. high, consisting of the closely-enveloped leaf-sheaths, the corresponding blades, each sometimes 10 ft. in length, forming a spreading crown.

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

The _leaf-sheaths_ are distichous and towards the base of the stem are

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

Duke cherry, for which I am indebted to Mr. Salter, there was a gradual change from the floral to the foliar condition; thus there were five distinct lanceolate sepals, the arrangement of whose veins betokened that they were leaf-sheaths rather than perfect leaves, ten petals partly foliaceous and sheath-like as to their venation, one of them funnel-shaped, but whether from dilatation or cohesion of the margins could not be determined.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

The _leaf-sheaths_ are smooth, coriaceous, glabrous, keeled and compressed.

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari