Classification of Plants 



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spikes or racemes. Stems and flowers orange, scarlet, or 



purple. 



Harveya. — Corolla with a long curved tube, spreading 



above. Stamens of two lengths, one cell of each anther 



containing pollen, ovate with long point, the other long and 



slender, empty. A parasite 

 on roots of grasses and Res- 

 tiaceae, with handsome white, 

 rosy, or scarlet flowers. 



Fig. 26^. — Nemesia. 



Fig. 264. — Hai-i'eya capensis. (From 

 Edmonds and Marloth's " Elementary 

 Botany for South Africa.") 



Order Bignoniace.'E. 



The flowers resemble those of Scrophulariacece, but the 

 ovaries are on a disc, and the embryos fill the seed. Stamens 

 on the corolla, 4-7. Leaves mostly compound. Trees or 

 shrubs. Many are found in Brazil. 



Tecoma is a handsome shrub, with racemes of scarlet 

 flowers. The stamens are didynamous, with a small filament 

 at the back where a stamen is no longer needed. The pod 

 is flattened at right angles to the partition. Seeds winged. 

 The opposite compound leaves are without tendrils. Cultivated 

 throughout the Colony. Wild in the East. 



