. Plants and their ways in South Africa. Botany; Botany. 336 Plants mill tlicir U^ars in Soiitli Africa marauder. As tlit- bee lights on the fringe of the lower petal, its weight bears down upon the keel, so that the pollen, which has been caught in the spoon-tipped pistil, is pushed out and rubbed off on the bee's body. It is then carried to another flower and brushed off on the stigma, which is on the lower side opposite the spoon-tip : 450 species from New Zealand to Arctic Zone. Mundtia is a stiff bush, with spine tipped branches, 2 to 3 feet high. Flowers red or white. The berries are eat
. Plants and their ways in South Africa. Botany; Botany. 336 Plants mill tlicir U^ars in Soiitli Africa marauder. As tlit- bee lights on the fringe of the lower petal, its weight bears down upon the keel, so that the pollen, which has been caught in the spoon-tipped pistil, is pushed out and rubbed off on the bee's body. It is then carried to another flower and brushed off on the stigma, which is on the lower side opposite the spoon-tip : 450 species from New Zealand to Arctic Zone. Mundtia is a stiff bush, with spine tipped branches, 2 to 3 feet high. Flowers red or white. The berries are eaten by birds and children. Common in dry, rocky places and on the seashore. One soecies, Af. spiiiusa, Muraltia.—Usually small, rigid, twiggy shrubs. Leaves often ending in a sharp point. Capsule furnished with four horns or hornless. Flowers purple, or two petals white. Over fifty species. The genus may be divided into two sub-genera :— I. Eumuraltia.—Flowers nearly sessile, leaves usually fas- cicled ; capsules long horned. II. Psilocladus.—Flowers on pedicels ; leaves solitary ; cap- sules not horned. Order p]ui'HORi!iACE/ii. This large order is very prominent in South Africa. The plants, f )und in dry, rocky places, frequently resemble Cactus, which is represented in the flora of this country only by one native genus Rliipsalis, and Opnntia which has become naturalized. Unless the plants are in flower, it is often difficult to distinguish the two orders. The flowers of the liu- phorbia family are inconspicuous and always imperfect. Both corolla and calyx may be absent. The truit is a 3-celled capsule, which often bursts with an explosion and. ^I'i- 305-—iJii'gf-'"' » -i ''y:<- thiuni of Ruphoiiiia Fcp/K^, L. fl'jchler) containing one female and five male inllon.'scences. scatters the seed. Euphorbia is tl most lann nus ol the ordci". Fike. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced f
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