Plants and their ways in South Africa . Fig. 290.—Monsonia speciosa, or I in each carpel. The carpels separate when ripe andare indehiscent, forming a schizocarp, Erodium; or thesegments dehisce and set free the seed, and the fruit is a schizo-carpic capsule, Geranium. Leaves alternate or opposite, stipulate. Herbs or shrubs,often hairy. Roots sometimes large tubers. Classification of Plants 317 Protandrous, but the stigmas in small flowers may rollback and effect self pollination. A. Flowers regular. Monsonia.—Stamens 15, in groups of three. Annuals orperennials with usually
Plants and their ways in South Africa . Fig. 290.—Monsonia speciosa, or I in each carpel. The carpels separate when ripe andare indehiscent, forming a schizocarp, Erodium; or thesegments dehisce and set free the seed, and the fruit is a schizo-carpic capsule, Geranium. Leaves alternate or opposite, stipulate. Herbs or shrubs,often hairy. Roots sometimes large tubers. Classification of Plants 317 Protandrous, but the stigmas in small flowers may rollback and effect self pollination. A. Flowers regular. Monsonia.—Stamens 15, in groups of three. Annuals orperennials with usually deeply cut leaves. Peduncles with twobracts above the middle, and one, two, or several flowers inumbels. Flowers large and showy, usually pink or markedwith pink. Rootstock often perennial. Sarcocaulon.—Stamens 15, monadelphous. Much-branched, fleshy rigid shrubs, armed with spines, formed fromold petioles. The stem is covered with a thick coating of wax. Fig. 291.—Sarcocaulon Marlothii, Eng., ixom. Die NatUrlichen PJlantzen-familien. and burns with a pleasant odour. Found in very dry placesof Eastern and North-Eastern districts. Geranium.—Stamens 10, the alternate longer, with honeyglands at the base. Herbaceous plants, with alternate or op-posite leaves, palmately lobed. A small genus from thePeninsula to Natal. Fruits explosive when splitting. Erodium.—Flowers regular, outer whorl of stamenssterile, inner with anthers and a gland at the base of mostly in cymose umbels. Common weeds withsimple, usually pinnate parted or cut leaves. The styles twistlike a corkscrew on drying, and are caught fast in the rain comes they uncoil, and as they lengthen push the 3i8 Plants and their Ways in South Africa seed into the soil. The downward pointing hairs help inscattering the seed.
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