266 Plants and their Ways in South Africa 



broad at base. Stigmas 5-3. Herbs with long forked flower- 

 stalks, axillary or terminal. Flowers blue. The drooping 

 flowers protect the pollen. The capsules after flowering stand 



erect, so that the seeds do 

 not all fall out at once, but 

 blow out a few at a time. 

 Forty-six species. 



Roella. — Corolla large, 

 funnel-, tubular-, or bell- 

 shaped. Ovary 2 - celled. 

 Stigmas 2, thick. Capsule 

 opening by a large pore at 

 the top. Rigid undershrubs. 

 Leaves narrow, crowded, 

 often tufted in the axils. 

 Flowers sessile, blue, white, 

 or pale yellow with a dark 

 centre. 



AAA. Flowers more or 

 less irregular. Anthers 

 free — 



Cyphia. — Petals 5, 

 separate, or partly clinging 

 by the upper part of their 

 claws. Capsule 2 - celled, 

 half superior opening at the 



^\o. ■2(&.— WaJde7ibergiacapensis. The 

 fruit becomes erect on ripening. 



Erect or climbing herbs, 



mostly with succulent or tuberous edible roots. Flowers blue, white, 



or pink. 



Order Composite.. 



This is the largest order of flowering plants. The flowers 

 are massed together in heads, as in Protea, and surrounded by 

 an involucre. Since the flowers are thus protected, as in 

 Proteaceae, there is no need of a double perianth, consequently 

 the calyx is either wanting or very much reduced, or it is 



