360 Plants and their Ways in South Africa 



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

 empty. A parasite on roots of various plants, with handsome 

 white, orange, rosy, or scarlet flowers. 



Leaves scale-like, opposite or upper alternate. 



Order BIGNONIACE^E. 



Flowers perfect, zygomorphic. Calyx 5 ; corolla 5, trumpet 

 or bell-shaped, imbricate; stamens 5, epipetalous, didynamous, 

 or 4, the staminode at the back always present ; one anther 

 lobe is usually above the other. Ovary raised on a disc, 

 bicarpellary, with many anatropous ovules. Seeds without 

 endosperm, with large membranous wings. 



Inflorescence usually dichasial, passing into a cincinnus. 



Trees or shrubs. Many are found in Brazil. Often tendril 

 climbers, the tendrils taking the place of leaflets. 



Stamens 4 with staminode. 



Tecomaria is a handsome shrub with racemes of scarlet 

 flowers. Stamens are exserted. The 

 walls of the capsule are flattened at 

 right angles to the septum and de- 

 hiscence takes place loculicidally. 



The opposite imparipinnate leaves are 

 without stipules. Used as hedges in the 

 West. - Wild in the East. , 



Bignonia has the pod flattened parallel 

 with the partition, the dehiscence is septi- 

 fragal, and the compound leaves end in a 

 tendril. Probably not native. B. capensis, 

 Th., is placed in Tecomaria in '^Flora 

 Capensis." 



Stamens 5. 



Cataphractes is a spiny shrub, with calyx tubular cleft 

 on one side. Corolla white. Stamens 6 or 7. Ovules few, 

 fruit warted. Found in Namaqualand. Leaves simple, tufted. 



Rhigozum. Calyx campanulate. Flowers yellow, borne 

 singly in the axils of alternate leaves. A rigid shrub in the 

 Eastern and Northern districts. Fruit warted. 



