46 SOUTH AFRICAN FLOWERING PLANTS. 



It is, then, by making bulbs, etc., that so many- 

 plants can manage to " adapt " themselves to endure 

 the dry season. 



Fig. 23. — Aspar'agus undula'tus. Rhizome, with nodulose roots. 



Similarly, it is by "acquiring," as we say, fleshy 

 stems, as of Mophorhias, or fleshy leaves, as of the 



