. Plants and their ways in South Africa. Botany; Botany. Classification of Plants 3 I 7 Protandrous, but the stigmas in small flowers may roll back and effect self pollination. A. Flowers regular. Monsonia.—Stamens 15, in groups of three. Annuals or perennials with usually deeply cut leaves. Peduncles with two bracts above the middle, and one, two, or several flowers in umbels. Flowers large and showy, usually pink or marked with pink. Rootstock often perennial. Sarcocaulon.—Stamens 15, monadelphous. Much- branched, fleshy rigid shrubs, armed with spines, formed from old petioles. The stem is
. Plants and their ways in South Africa. Botany; Botany. Classification of Plants 3 I 7 Protandrous, but the stigmas in small flowers may roll back and effect self pollination. A. Flowers regular. Monsonia.—Stamens 15, in groups of three. Annuals or perennials with usually deeply cut leaves. Peduncles with two bracts above the middle, and one, two, or several flowers in umbels. Flowers large and showy, usually pink or marked with pink. Rootstock often perennial. Sarcocaulon.—Stamens 15, monadelphous. Much- branched, fleshy rigid shrubs, armed with spines, formed from old petioles. The stem is covered with a thick coating of wax. Fig. 291.—Sarcocaulon Marlothii, Eng., from Die Xaturlkhen Pfiantzen- familien. and burns with a pleasant odour. Found in very dry places of Eastern and North-Eastern districts. Geranium.—Stamens 10, the alternate longer, with honey glands at the base. Herbaceous plants, with alternate or op- posite leaves, palmately lobed. A small genus from the Peninsula to Natal. Fruits explosive when splitting. Erodium.—Flowers regular, outer whorl of stamens sterile, inner with anthers and a gland at the base of each. Flowers mostly in cymose umbels. Common weeds with simple, usually pinnate parted or cut leaves. The styles twist like a corkscrew on drying, and are caught fast in the weeds. When rain comes they uncoil, and as they lengthen push the. 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 resemble the original Stoneman, Bertha. London, New York, Longmans, Green
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