3i8 Plants and their Ways in South Africa 



seed into the soil. The downward pointing hairs help in 

 scattering the seed. 



A B 



Fig. 292. — Floral diagrams. A, Erodium ; B, Monsonia. 



AA. Flowers zygomorphic. 



Pelargonium. — Filaments 10, unequal in length. From 

 2 to 7 of them bearing anthers. There is but one gland, 



Fig. 293, — Garden Pelargonium. 



found at the base of the broad sepal. The honey is stored in 

 a hollow spur of the calyx joined to the flower-stalk. 



