Identifier: plantstheirway00ston (find matches)
Title: Plants and their ways in South Africa
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Stoneman, Bertha, 1866-
Subjects: Plants
Publisher: London, Longmans, Green
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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rt spur, smoothor crested or bearded on longitudinal furrows. Pollinia at-tached to one gland. Flowers small, yellow or dull coloured,shaded w4th purple, green, orange, or white. The base of theleaves often forms a bulb-like swelling above ground. Leavesin two ranks, usually plaited. Terrestrial. Extending from Cape Town to Natal, but more common in the East. Angraecium and Mystacidium are genera with muchthe same habit and appearance. They are epiphytes, oftenfestooning the trees with beautiful showers of white blossoms. The flowers are sometimes yellowish, and very small. Eastern dis-tricts and Natal. Bartholina is one of the prettiest and daintiest of Orchids.It may be known at once by the peculiar lip, with its manylong, slender projections. Classification of Plants 277 There are two species: in B.pectinata, R. Br., the lashes are pointedand curve downward; in the rarer species, B. Ethalce, Bolus, they curveupward, adn each is tipped by a tiny knob. The solitary flowers are white,
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Fig. 249.—Polystachya Otfoniana, Reichb., an epiphytic genus with tuberi-form stem bases. The flowers are yellow. delicately tinged with purple. Leaf solitary, radical, flat on the soil. B.pectinata, R. Br., extends from the Cape peninsula to Grahamstown.Flowering in November and December. Satyrium is distinguished from other Orchids by the twospurs of the hood-shaped lip at the back of the fiower (i.e.next to the stalk). The sepals and two petals form the lowerportion of the flower. The anther is in front, as the ovary is 2/8 Plants and their Ways in South Africa not twisted, and the glands of the pollinia lie in the notchedrostellum. Leaves two or one lying flat on the ground, or more thantwo erect. Flowers in dense spikes, white, brilliant yellow,orange, or a beautiful rose colour or dull brown. Differentspecies may be found in flower from July to December. Awidely distributed genus.

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