Plants and their ways in South Africa . underground bulbs and fleshy stems. Oxalis isone of our brightest winter flowers. Early in April and May, they clothethe veld with masses of yellow, or stud it with white and red in manyshades during July and August. Classification of Plants 321 Order Sapindace^. Flowers regular, or often zygomorphic, with the ovary atone end of a boat-shaped flower, and a disk at oneside of the ovary, between the stamens and flowers are perfect or dioecious. The staminodesin the pistillate flowers are often so well developed asto be taken for perfect stamens.
Plants and their ways in South Africa . underground bulbs and fleshy stems. Oxalis isone of our brightest winter flowers. Early in April and May, they clothethe veld with masses of yellow, or stud it with white and red in manyshades during July and August. Classification of Plants 321 Order Sapindace^. Flowers regular, or often zygomorphic, with the ovary atone end of a boat-shaped flower, and a disk at oneside of the ovary, between the stamens and flowers are perfect or dioecious. The staminodesin the pistillate flowers are often so well developed asto be taken for perfect stamens. Stamens 4 to 10,more or less united at the base. Ovary usually afew-seeded capsule. Leaves alternate, simple, or compound, frequently stipulate,half shrubs. Trees, shrubs, or Christmas Tree of the Oudtshoorn, Uitenhage,and Albany districts. Flowers more or less regular, with 8 monadelph- Aitonia.—Dear to the childrens hearts is the ^^stamens and pistilof Oxalis.(FromEdmondsand Mar-1 o t h • sElemen-tary Bot-any JorSouth Af-rica.). ous Stamens bendin< Fig. 298.—Aitunia capeusis, (the ^.u^ Christmas Tree ). ^^ 21 toward one side ofthe flower. Thescalloped disk issurrounded by thestamens. Flowers purple. Of even more interestthan the flowers are the gayclusters of balloon-like fruits,hanging purple and yellowand red among the narrowevergreen leaves. Such brightlittle lanterns are just the-p- thing for lighting Christmastrees. The simple, entireleaves come from clusters ofdwarf cushion-like branches. Melianthus may be mis-taken for Aiionia from thesimilarity of the inflated fruit,but the leaves are compound,petiole usually winged 322 Plants and their Ways in South Africa between the pinna;. The flower has from 4 to 5 horseshoe-shaped disk lies between the stamens and petals.
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