Plants and their ways in South Africa . I Fig. 341.—Harveya capensis. Hook. A, section of flower, B, stamenshowing one long empty anther cell, c, floral diagram. nearly regular, orange. Found in sandy soil. Herbs, rarelywoody. Usually not drying black. A A. Back lobes covered by the front lobes in bud. Rootparasites— B. Anthers \-celled— Hyobanche.—Calyx deeply 5-parted. Corolla tubular,curved and hooded at the top, limb shortly 3-lobed. Stamensof two lengths. Rose-red, thick stemmed. Parasites on theroots of Proteaceae and other plants. Mr. v. d. Merwe, ofWellington, has found this parasite g
Plants and their ways in South Africa . I Fig. 341.—Harveya capensis. Hook. A, section of flower, B, stamenshowing one long empty anther cell, c, floral diagram. nearly regular, orange. Found in sandy soil. Herbs, rarelywoody. Usually not drying black. A A. Back lobes covered by the front lobes in bud. Rootparasites— B. Anthers \-celled— Hyobanche.—Calyx deeply 5-parted. Corolla tubular,curved and hooded at the top, limb shortly 3-lobed. Stamensof two lengths. Rose-red, thick stemmed. Parasites on theroots of Proteaceae and other plants. Mr. v. d. Merwe, ofWellington, has found this parasite growing on roots, in anant heap, 30 feet below the surface. Classification of Plants 359 BB. Anthers 2-celled— Harveya. — Calyx campanulate or oblong, somewhat. Fig. z^2.—Harveya capemis, Hook. (Photograph by E. J. Steer, Esq.) inflated. Corolla with a long curved tube, spreading of two lengths, one cell of each anther containing 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 handsomewhite, orange, rosy, or scarlet flowers. Leaves scale-like, opposite or upper alternate. Order Bignoniace/E. Flowers perfect, zygomorphic. Calyx 5 ; corolla 5, trumpetor bell-shaped, imbricate; stamens 5, epipetalous, didynamous,or 4, the staminode at the back always present; one antherlobe is usually above the other. Ovary raised on a disc,bicarpellary, with many anatropous ovules. Seeds withoutendosperm, with large membranous wings. Inflorescence usually dichasial, passing into a cincinnus. Trees or shrubs. Many are found in Brazil. Often tendrilclimbers, the tendrils taking the place of leaflets. Stamens 4 with staminode. Tecomaria is a hands
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