270 SOUTH AFRICAN FLOWERING PLANTS. 



of a minute scale. This is, in fact, the leaf, but reduced 

 to a mere rudiment. 



VI. 



VII. 



Fig. X^^.—As'par'ayus. I. Flowering-shoot. II. Vertical section of flower. III. 

 Transverse section of ovary. IV. Diagram. V. Fruit. VI. Seed. VII. Vertical 

 section of seed. 



The followinor are the details of a flower of 



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Aspar'agus : — 



