. Plants and their ways in South Africa. Botany; Botany. 3 50 P/diits and their Jl'in's in Soutli Africa Pachycarpus has larger bell-shaped or globose flowers, and a corona of long flattened spreading lobes. Follicles winged. Mostly Kalahari and Eastern regions. BBB. Stamens witli a double crown. Sarcostemma.—Corona of an outer fleshy ring and 5 inner leaves. Erect or climbing leafless shrubs, with fleshy jointed stems and wheel-shaped corollas. AAA. Pollen masses 10, erect^ with the inland below. Corona double. Riocreuxia. — Corolla bell- shaped, swollen at the base, the slender tips meeting
. Plants and their ways in South Africa. Botany; Botany. 3 50 P/diits and their Jl'in's in Soutli Africa Pachycarpus has larger bell-shaped or globose flowers, and a corona of long flattened spreading lobes. Follicles winged. Mostly Kalahari and Eastern regions. BBB. Stamens witli a double crown. Sarcostemma.—Corona of an outer fleshy ring and 5 inner leaves. Erect or climbing leafless shrubs, with fleshy jointed stems and wheel-shaped corollas. AAA. Pollen masses 10, erect^ with the inland below. Corona double. Riocreuxia. — Corolla bell- shaped, swollen at the base, the slender tips meeting to form an arch. Half shrubby graceful climbers, with heart-shaped petiolate leaves and greenish or dark purple flowers, and tuberous roots. Stapelia.—Flowers large, star- shaped, greenish purple, mottled. Their strong and disagreeable odour attracts carrion flies, which aid in fertilization. The tufted stems are leafless, 4-angled, and swollen. In the central portion water is stored. Hoodia has large showy flowers over an inch in diameter ; stem stout, cylindrical bushily branched, leafless ; with many tubercled angles ; tubercles spine or bristle tipped. The plant resembles Cactus or Eu- phorbia (fleshy species) in 332.—Stapi:lia. .Stem and flowers. (From Hen- slow's " South African Flowering Plants".) Order L,\I!Iai-,k. Calyx gamosepalous, 5-toothed, remaining on, and often showy after flowering. Corolla more or less zygomorjihic, and 2-lipped. Stamens 2 or 4, of two lengths or nearly equal, borne on the petals. Ovary of 2 carpels, becoming 4-celled each cell containing one basal, erect seed. The style comes from the 1iase instead of the to[) of the carpels. When ripe the fruit separates into four )nUs. The order niav be re-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Stonem
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