. South African botany. Botany. 44 SOUTH AFRICAN BOTANY up in the bulb and produces flowers and fruit. Adventi- tious roots are developed at the base of the bulb. After flowering, the food is again stored up in the bases of the foliage leaves, so that a new bulb is produced. n -. Fig. 28.—I. Oorm of Montbretia, n. New conn. /. Foliage leaves, s. Scale leaves. II. Section through Corm of Montbretia. u,. Main axis. t. Swollen stem. s. Scale leaves. /. Foliage leavLj. {d) A corm (fig. 28) is a swollen underground portion of the stem. It resembles a bulb in appearance, but differs from it in posse

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. South African botany. Botany. 44 SOUTH AFRICAN BOTANY up in the bulb and produces flowers and fruit. Adventi- tious roots are developed at the base of the bulb. After flowering, the food is again stored up in the bases of the foliage leaves, so that a new bulb is produced. n -. Fig. 28.—I. Oorm of Montbretia, n. New conn. /. Foliage leaves, s. Scale leaves. II. Section through Corm of Montbretia. u,. Main axis. t. Swollen stem. s. Scale leaves. /. Foliage leavLj. {d) A corm (fig. 28) is a swollen underground portion of the stem. It resembles a bulb in appearance, but differs from it in possessing only a few scale leaves, the solid portion of it being'a stem 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 Storey, Francis W; Wright, K. London, New York, Longmans, Green

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