Plants and their ways in South Africa . Fig. 22)7.—Littonia modesta, Amaryllidace^.Flowers perfect, regular, or nearly so. Outer segments ofthe perianth coloured. Stamensusually 3 + 3, rarely 3 or introrse, long or short,basifixed or swinging. Ovary in-ferior, 3-celled ; placentation axile ;stigmas three. Fruit usually a 3-valved capsule, sometimes a opening midway betweenthe partitions (loculicidal), or split-ting around at the centre. Seedsusually many. Usually stemless herbs with radical leaves. Mostly Xerophytes,leafing in the wet season. Rootstock a b
Plants and their ways in South Africa . Fig. 22)7.—Littonia modesta, Amaryllidace^.Flowers perfect, regular, or nearly so. Outer segments ofthe perianth coloured. Stamensusually 3 + 3, rarely 3 or introrse, long or short,basifixed or swinging. Ovary in-ferior, 3-celled ; placentation axile ;stigmas three. Fruit usually a 3-valved capsule, sometimes a opening midway betweenthe partitions (loculicidal), or split-ting around at the centre. Seedsusually many. Usually stemless herbs with radical leaves. Mostly Xerophytes,leafing in the wet season. Rootstock a bulb or corm. Inflorescence. Fig. 238.—Floral inaiy/lidacecF. 262 Plants and their Ways in South Africa always cymose. Flowers in umbels, corymbs, or single. Distinguishedfrom the Lily family by the inferior ovary. Tribe I. Hypoxide/E.—Rootstock a corm. Flowers without a spathe below, usually yellow, and hairy —Stamens 3, opposite inner —Stamens 6. Fruit indehiscent, produced into a long beak beneath the —Stamens 6. Capsule splitting around at the centre, not produced into a beak, or rarely beaked. Tribe II. Amaryllide^.—Rootstock a bulb. Leaves all radical. Flowers never hairy outside, usually in an umbel with a spathe below.* Anthers basifixed. Hessea.—Anthers small. Perianth cut down to the —Anthers small. Perianth with a —Anthers long, arrow-shaped. Flowers in —Flowers solitary, with a long tube and a flat spread-ing limb. Stamens in a single row; anthers —F
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