Plants and their ways in South Africa . Stamens unequal. Ovary half inferior. Perianth de-ciduous. Wachendorfia.âPerianth funnel-shaped ; sepals hairyoutside. Stamens opposite the sepals. Capsule i-seeded,splitting at the midrib of each carpel. Plants with yellow orbrownish flowers, tuberous roots lance-like, plaited leaves andred juice. Malmesbury to Uitenhage. Lanaria (Cape Edelweiss).âL. pltimosa, Ait., is aplant densely coated with white,soft-spreading, plume-like hairs onbranches and flowers. Flowers in adense panicle. Rootstock of fleshyfibres. Leaves several, in a rosetteat the base of
Plants and their ways in South Africa . Stamens unequal. Ovary half inferior. Perianth de-ciduous. Wachendorfia.âPerianth funnel-shaped ; sepals hairyoutside. Stamens opposite the sepals. Capsule i-seeded,splitting at the midrib of each carpel. Plants with yellow orbrownish flowers, tuberous roots lance-like, plaited leaves andred juice. Malmesbury to Uitenhage. Lanaria (Cape Edelweiss).âL. pltimosa, Ait., is aplant densely coated with white,soft-spreading, plume-like hairs onbranches and flowers. Flowers in adense panicle. Rootstock of fleshyfibres. Leaves several, in a rosetteat the base of the stem, together withthe fibrous remains of old ones. Found about Port Elizabeth,Riversdale, and in Bains Kloof. Cyanella has racemes or paniclesof delicate blue or yellow flowers,and may be easily recognized by thepeculiar hand-like centre composedof the â¢stamens, one of which is much larger than the opening by terminal pores. Leaves appearing beforeor with the flowers. Rootstock a corm, deeply sunk in Fig. 245.âFloral diagram ofCyanella. Order Musace/E. (Included in Scitaminece, Bentham andHooker). Perianth 6-parted; 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 flow
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