Classification of Plants 



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Series III. — Fruit a capsule. 



A. Rootstuck a bulb or conn 

 distinct claw. 

 Wurmbea. — Flowers spicate. 

 segments joined at the base 

 opening at the septa. 

 AA. Rootstock not bulbous. Capsule dehiscing 

 loculicidally. 

 Gloriosa. — Stem climbing by leaf tips. 



Perianth segments free spreading. 

 Sandersonia. — Stem erect. Perianth 

 tubular with short free tips. Flowers 

 solitary, hanging on slender pedicels 

 from a few of the upper leaves. 



Anthers opening outward. 



Perianth segments narrowed into a 



Perianth 

 Capsule 



Fig. 189. — Floral diagram 

 of Aloe. (From Ed- 

 monds and Marloth's 

 ' Elementary Botany 

 for South Africa.") 



Smilax. — Flowers dioecious, small, greenish, borne in 

 umbels. Staminate flowers with 6 slender filaments and 

 erect anthers. Pistillate flowers with 6 thread-like staminodia. 



Fk;. igo. — Aloe rupcstris. (Photograph by Dr. Marloth.) 



