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Plants and their Ways in South Africa 



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

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

 Periantli not hairy, deciduous. 



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

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

 ciduous. 



Wachendorfia.— Perianth fuunel-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 

 red juice. Malraesbury to Uitenhage. 



Lanaria ("Cape Edelweiss").— Z. fliimnsa, Ait., is a 

 plant densely coated with white, 

 soft-spreading, plume-like hairs on 

 branches and flowers. Flowers in a 

 dense panicle. Rootstock 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 lilizabeth, 

 Riversdale, and in Bain's Kloof. 



Cyanellahas racemes or panicles 

 of delicate blue or yellow flowers, 

 and ma)' 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. Rootstock a corm, deeply sunk in the 

 soil. 



Fig. 245. — Moral diagram of 

 Cvanclla. 



Order Musace.I''.. (Licluded in Scitaminci,^ Bentham and 

 Hooker). 



Perianth 6-parted ; both sepals and petals coloured. 

 Stamens 5 or i. Anthers 2-celled. Ovary 3-celled, inlerior. 

 ]''ruit a berry, or capsule. I^arge herbs with a rhi/ome and 

 leaves rolled in the bud. 'J'he leaves arc large, oval, with a 

 stout midrib and parallel wins nnining from it to the edge. 

 As they do not join as in Dicotyledons, they easily tear and 



