. Plants and their ways in South Africa. Botany; Botany. 360 Plants and their Ways in South Africa pollen, ovate with long point, the other long and slender, empty. A parasite on roots of various plants, with handsome white, orange, rosy, or scarlet flowers. Leaves scale-like, opposite or upper alternate. Order Bignoniace.'e. Flowers perfect, zygomorphic. Calyx 5 ; corolla 5, trumpet or bell-shaped, imbricate; stamens 5, epipetalous, didynamous, or 4, the staminode at the back always present; one anther lobe is usually above the other. Ovary raised on a disc, bicarpellary, with many anatropous
. Plants and their ways in South Africa. Botany; Botany. 360 Plants and their Ways in South Africa pollen, ovate with long point, the other long and slender, empty. A parasite on roots of various plants, with handsome white, orange, rosy, or scarlet flowers. Leaves scale-like, opposite or upper alternate. Order Bignoniace.'e. Flowers perfect, zygomorphic. Calyx 5 ; corolla 5, trumpet or bell-shaped, imbricate; stamens 5, epipetalous, didynamous, or 4, the staminode at the back always present; one anther lobe is usually above the other. Ovary raised on a disc, bicarpellary, with many anatropous ovules. .Seeds without endosperm, with large membranous wings. Inflorescence usually dichasial, passing into a cincinnus. Trees or shrubs. Many are found in Brazil. Often tendril climbers, the tendrils taking the place of leaflets. Stamens 4 with staminode. Tecomaria is a handsome shrub with racemes of scarlet flowers. Stamens are exserted. The walls of the capsule are flattened at right angles to the septum and de- hiscence takes place loculicidally. The opposite iinparipinnate lea\'es are without stipules. Used as hedges in the West. Wild in the East. Bignonia has the pod flattened parallel with the partition, the dehiscence is septi- fragal, and the compound leaves end in a tendril. Probably not native. B. capt'nsis, Th., is placed in Tecomaria in " Flora ;. Fig. 343.~Floral diagram of Tecoviaria (after Hooker). Stamen'i 5. Cataphractes is a spiji) shrub, with cal>\ tuljular cleft on one side. Corolla white. Stamens 0 or 7. (Ovules lew, huit warled. Found in Namaqualand. Leaves simple, tufted. Rhigozum.—-Calyx campaiuilate. klowers yellow, borne singly in the axils of alternate leaves. ,\ rigid shrub in the Fastern and Northern districts, l-'ruit 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 resemb
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