Plants and their ways in South Africa . both sepals and petals 5 or i. Anthers 2-celled. Ovary 3-celled, a berry, or capsule. Large herbs with a rhizome andleaves rolled in the bud. The leaves are large, oval, with astout midrib and parallel veins running from it to the they do not join as in Dicotyledons, they easily tear and Classificatioji of Plants 273 become very ragged. The flower-stalk comes from the rhizome,and is surrounded at base by the flowers are with large brightlycoloured bracts. Kaempferia is a genus of low is one p
Plants and their ways in South Africa . both sepals and petals 5 or i. Anthers 2-celled. Ovary 3-celled, a berry, or capsule. Large herbs with a rhizome andleaves rolled in the bud. The leaves are large, oval, with astout midrib and parallel veins running from it to the they do not join as in Dicotyledons, they easily tear and Classificatioji of Plants 273 become very ragged. The flower-stalk comes from the rhizome,and is surrounded at base by the flowers are with large brightlycoloured bracts. Kaempferia is a genus of low is one perfect stamen and thestaminodia, like those of the relatedgenus Canna, are conspicuous. Theflowers are large, rose-coloured with yel-low markings. Fls. perfect or often aromatic. Strelitzia has large elliptical leaveson long petioles arranged in two flower-stalks push through thesheathing petioles. S. augusta, Th., is a tall banana-like specieswith a stem 18 or 20 feet high, the petals and sepals are Fig. 246. —Floral dia-gram of Strelitzia.
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