Plants and their ways in South Africa . h it may be known by the 2-celIedanthers. Theobroma, from which chocolate is derived, belongs to thisorder. A. Flowers imperfect—petals tione. Cola.—Staminate flowers with 10-12 sessile anthers in aring. Pistillate with a five carpelled ovary and abortivestamens ; seeds numerous, ex-albuminous. Leaves entire. C. Natalensis.—(Kafir Umtenenenda, a tree in East Pondo-land.) From trees on the West Coast seeds are used inpreparing Coco-Kola. Sterculia.—Calyx coloured, downy on both sides ; sta-minal column bearing many scattered extrorse anthers. Car-pels 5,
Plants and their ways in South Africa . h it may be known by the 2-celIedanthers. Theobroma, from which chocolate is derived, belongs to thisorder. A. Flowers imperfect—petals tione. Cola.—Staminate flowers with 10-12 sessile anthers in aring. Pistillate with a five carpelled ovary and abortivestamens ; seeds numerous, ex-albuminous. Leaves entire. C. Natalensis.—(Kafir Umtenenenda, a tree in East Pondo-land.) From trees on the West Coast seeds are used inpreparing Coco-Kola. Sterculia.—Calyx coloured, downy on both sides ; sta-minal column bearing many scattered extrorse anthers. Car-pels 5, seeds many, albuminous. Trees with palmately compound leaves, found at Uitenhageand the Transvaal. AA. Floivers perfect, petals prese?it, staminodia alterjiatingivith the stamens. Dombeya.—A 3-leaved, i-sided, deciduous involucresubtends the flowers. Calyx bending back as the flowers Classification of Plants 333 open. Petals twisted, unequal-sided. Stamens 10-15, alter-nating in parcels of 2-3 with 5 slender staminodia. Small. Y\,i\. — Herma?tniaa/fhctfolia,: Fig. ^12.—Hermannia {.Vlaheniia)a, stamens. (After Botanical Ma- ovalis, H. : a, stamens, gazine .) Eastern trees with an abundance of white or rosy flowers. Thepetals become papery and enlarged, remaining on. AAA. Flowers perfect, no sta- __ minodia. Hermannia is a very common,more or less prostrate, weed with thehabit of a shrub or an calyx is often inflated. Theflowers red, orange, or creamy 5, opposite the petals,broad, narrowed toward the top orbottom. Leaves entire or toothed,often plaited. The entire plant oftencovered with stellate hairs, woolly, velvety, or sticky
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