128 Plants and their Ways in SoiitJi Africa 



some distance as the stamens are freed from confinement. 

 In Natal another species (Z. ?iafalitius), which the children 

 know as " lighted candles," has waxy white flowers tipped with 



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Pig. j^2.- - Lora>ithiis oleafolins. The sensitive tips of the corolla fly back and 

 scatter the pollen as the stamens are released. 



yellow. The sugar bird sets free the arched style of Protea^ 

 which scatters the pollen before the stigma is ripe. 



When other flowers are closed for the season, the blue sage 

 {Salvia) may be depended upon to offer refreshments to visiting 

 bees. Down by the four-parted ovary there is a little yellow 



