. Plants and their ways in South Africa. Botany; Botany. O "1 '~> Plants and their Ways in South Africa Dilatris.—Stamens 3. Fruit inferior, 3-celled. Lanaria.—Stamens 6. Fruit inferior, i-celled. Periantli not hairy, deciduous. Sansevieria.—Periantli with a long tube. Fruit free. Cyanella.—Stamens unequal. Ovary half inferior. Perianth de- ciduous. Wachendorfia.—Perianth fuunel-shaped; sepals hairy outside. Stamens opposite the sepals. Capsule i-seeded, splitting at the midrib of each carpel. Plants with yellow or brownish flowers, tuberous roots lance-like, plaited leaves and red jui
. Plants and their ways in South Africa. Botany; Botany. O "1 '~> Plants and their Ways in South Africa Dilatris.—Stamens 3. Fruit inferior, 3-celled. Lanaria.—Stamens 6. Fruit inferior, i-celled. Periantli not hairy, deciduous. Sansevieria.—Periantli with a long tube. Fruit free. Cyanella.—Stamens unequal. Ovary half inferior. Perianth de- ciduous. Wachendorfia.—Perianth fuunel-shaped; sepals hairy outside. Stamens opposite the sepals. Capsule i-seeded, splitting at the midrib of each carpel. Plants with yellow or brownish flowers, tuberous roots lance-like, plaited leaves and red juice. Malraesbury to Uitenhage. Lanaria ("Cape Edelweiss").—Z. fliimnsa, Ait., is a plant densely coated with white, soft-spreading, plume-like hairs on branches and flowers. Flowers in a dense panicle. Rootstock of fleshy fibres. Leaves several, in a rosette at the base of the stem, together with the fibrous remains of old ones. Found about Port lilizabeth, Riversdale, and in Bain's Kloof. Cyanellahas racemes or panicles of delicate blue or yellow flowers, and ma)' be easily recognized by the peculiar hand-like centre composed of the stamens, one of which is much larger than the others. Stamens opening by terminal pores. Leaves appearing before or with the flowers. Rootstock a corm, deeply sunk in the Fig. 245.—Moral diagram of Cvanclla. Order ''.. (Licluded in Scitaminci,^ Bentham and Hooker). Perianth 6-parted ; both sepals and petals coloured. Stamens 5 or i. Anthers 2-celled. Ovary 3-celled, inlerior. ]''ruit a berry, or capsule. I^arge herbs with a rhi/ome and leaves rolled in the bud. 'J'he leaves arc large, oval, with a stout midrib and parallel wins nnining from it to the edge. As they do not join as in Dicotyledons, they easily tear and. 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 resem
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