Ii6 Plants mid their Ways in Sonth Africa 



it is called a spathe. Bracts 

 which enclose the flowers of 

 grasses and sedges are called 

 pales and glumes. 



In Satyrium the bracts be- 



FiG. 128.— A, Cymose inflorescence of Myosotis ; B, diagram- 

 matic representation of the order of development of the 

 flowers in the scorpioid cyme. (From Thome and Bennett's 

 " Structural and Physiological Botany.") 



Fig. \'2().—Ca^i till Hill, or head of Protca, surrounded by bracts'forming an involucre. 



