Classification of Plants 



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of fleshy fibres. Leaves several, in a rosette at the base of the 

 stem, together with the fibrous remains of old ones. 



Found about Port Elizabeth, Riversdale, and in Bain's 

 Kloof. 



Cyanella has racemes or panicles of delicate blue or 

 yellow flowers, and may be easily recognized by the peculiar 

 hand-like centre composed of the stamens, one of which is 

 much larger than the others. Stamens opening by terminal 

 pores. Leaves appearing before or with the flowers. Root- 

 stock a corm, deeply sunk in the soil. 



Order Musace^. 



Perianth 6-parted ; both sepals and petals coloured. 

 Stamens 5. Ovary 3-celled. Fruit a berry, or capsule. Large 



Fig, 200. — Strclitzia reginn. «, cross-section of odd petal. 



herbs with a rhizome and leaves rolled in the bud. The 

 leaves are large, oval, with a stout midrib and parallel veins 

 running from it to the edge. As they do not join as in Dicoty- 

 ledons, they easily tear and become very ragged. The flower- 

 stalk comes from the rhizome, and is surrounded at base by 



