A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

ubi (adv.): 1. in which place, where;

- locus ubi nix longe perdurat, place where snow persists a long time (a 'snow patch').

- Hab. in Nova Caesarea, ubi legit cl. Torrey, it grows (habitat) in New Jersey [U.S.A.], where collected by the famous (cl. = clarissimus) John Torrey.

- ostia usque 2 mm lata, pallide grisea vel grisea vel nigriscentia, ubi tacta cinnamomeo-maculata, ostia to 2 mm wide, pale gray or gray or becoming black, where touched cinnamon-spotted.

- India orientalis, ubi cum plantis multis aliis apostolus ecclesiae Klein in parietibus domorum mensibus Dec. et Jan. primus legit et ad Willdenow misit. (C. Muell.), eastern India, where Klein, a missionary of the church, collected it on the walls of buildings in the months of December and January and sent it to Willdenow.

- in planitiebus argilloso-arenosis paulo salinis deserti juxta flumen Murray, ubi primo reperit cl. Behr. M.D. (F. Muell.), in the clay-sandy, somewhat salty plains of the desert beside the river Murray, where the eminent Behr, M.D. first discovered it.

- Civitas autem olim clarissima et magna Romae aemula funditus deleta, ita ut vix agnoscas campos ubi fuerit (Desf.) the state, however, once the most reknowned and rival to Rome, obliterated to the very root [i.e. from the very bottom], so that you might scarcely recognize the fields where it had been.

2. adv. of time): when, whenever, as soon as; see 'when;'

- ubi vere ineunte, arbores foliosi, whenever spring comes in, the trees are full of leaves.

- petala longitudine varia, erecta ubi brevia, patentissima ubi elongata, petals in length varying, erect when short, most outspread when elongated (Stearn).

- planta ubi madida tum patens, plant when moist then spreading.

- foliis ubi veteribus involutis, with leaves, when old, involute.

- stipulis lanceolatis, ubi juvenibus tomentosis, ubi adultis glabris, with stipules lanceolate, when young, tomentose, when adult glabrous.

- cymis paucifloris pedunculatis axillaribus ad mediam partem ramuli ubi spina incipit insertis (Boissier), with the cymes few-flowered, pedunculate, inserted on the axils at the middle part of the branchlet where the spine begins.

- quæ ubi attrectantur, ob rorem undique adhærentem veluti in mucorem invicem collabuntur & guttis stillantibus quasi in aquam resoluta apparent (Dill.) which [n.pl. = filaments] whenever they are touched, due to the moisture clinging everywhere, mutually this way and that, they collapse together, for example into a mucous substance, and they appear, with dripping drops, as if dissolved in water.