198 Plants and their Ways in South Africa 



sometimes furnished with conspicuous projections. Leaves few 

 or in a fan-shaped rosette. Both Western and Eastern. 



Gladiolus. — A great variety of colours is found in the 

 flowers. Perianth tube curved, limb irregular, lobes often 

 narrowed into a claw, the three lower often vividly marked. 

 Seeds flattened, winged, numerous. " Painted Ladies " and 

 " Kalkoentjes " belong here. Eighty-one species of this 

 large genus are found in South Africa. 



Antholyza. — Perianth tube suddenly widening at the 

 middle, often twisted below. Seeds large, globose, not winged. 



Order H^modorace^. 

 (" The blood roots.") 



Flowers perfect. Perianth regular or nearly so. Stamens 

 6, or 3 opposite the petals. Ovary wholly or partly superior 

 or inferior. Fruit 3-celled or becoming i-celled. Seeds 

 one, few, or many. Herbs often covered with dense hairs. 

 Never bulbous. Leaves often in two rows and firm. Roots 

 often with a blood-red juice. Flowers in panicles. The order 

 forms a connecting link between Liliaceae and Iridaceae, 

 Amaryllidaceas and Orchidaccce. 



Perianth remaining hairy. 



Wachendorfia. — Stamens 3. Fruit free, 3-celled. 



Barberetta. — Stamens 3. Fruit free, i -celled. 



Dilatris. — Stamens 3. Fruit inferior, 3-celled. 



Lanaria. — Stamens 6. Fruit inferior, i -celled. 

 Perianth not hairy. 



Sansevieria. — Perianth with a long tube. Fruit free. 



Cyanella. — Stamens unequal. Ovary half inferior. Perianth de- 

 ciduous. 



Wachendorfia. — Perianth funnel-shaped ; sepals hairy 

 outside. Stamens opposite the sepals. Capsule i-seeded, 

 splitting at the midrib of each carpel. Plants with yellow or 

 brownish flowers, tuberous roots lance-like, plaited leaves and 

 redjuice. Malmsbury to LTitenhage. 



Lanaria ('' Cape Edelweiss "). — L. plumosa is a plant 

 densely coated with white, soft-spreading, plume-like hairs on 

 branches and flowers. Flowers in a dense panicle. Rootstock 



