The flowering plants of South Africa; vol. 5 — John Shaqi
The flowering plants of South Africa; vol. 5Pole Evans, I. B. (Illtyd Buller)
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The flowering plants of South Africa; vol. 5
Pole Evans, I. B. (Illtyd Buller)
Plants -- South Africa -- Periodicals; Plants -- South Africa -- Pictorial works -- Periodicals
The specimens collected by Mr. Smith are an exact match with those
collected by Zeyher (No. 2812). Zeyher No. 3066, quoted by Harvey as _D.
cuneata_, is quite a different plant, perhaps a _Tripteris_. We have
accepted the specific name “cuneata,” as this was the name given by Mr.
N. E. Brown to a specimen collected by Mr. E. E. Galpin. Locally known
as “mak-bietou.”
DESCRIPTION:--A densely and closely branched bushy shrub up to 1·05 m.
high, the older branches naked, rough, the younger short and closely
leafy. _Leaves_ varying in shape (linear to obovate) and size (0·5 to
1·3 cm. long), always cuneate at the base, sharply 2 to 4 toothed,
obscurely mid-ribbed, gland-dotted, subdecurrent, glabrous or nearly so.
_Peduncles_ terminal, 2 to 3·5 cm. long, glandular-pubescent,
viscidulous, becoming widened at the top. _Involucre_ uni-seriate,
glaucescent, viscidulous; scales linear-acuminate, minutely
glandular-puberulous, with pale-edged and ciliate margins. _Receptacle_
about 3·5 mm. in diam., nude, flat. Ray-florets female, uniseriate.
_Corolla_ ligulate, white above, yellow to bronze-coppery below; lamina
spreading, finely-three toothed, cuneate at the base; tube of corolla
1·5 mm. long, terete, glandular-hairy. _Ovary_ triquetrous, green,
obconic, somewhat curved, glandular hairy with stalked glands, with the
angular margins bluntly toothed; style 4·5 mm. long, cylindric,
glabrous; branches 2 mm. long, yellow, flat, subacute. _Disc-florets_
hermaphrodite, fertile. _Corolla-tube_ yellow, 3 mm. long, subcylindric,
with a 5-fid limb, very densely glandular-hairy at the base, glabrous
above. _Anthers_ 3 mm. long, subsagittate at the base, with an ovate
obtuse apical appendage. _Ovary_ very much laterally compressed,
obcordate, glandular, with a wide thick-rimmed entire marginal wing;
style 6 mm. long, cylindric, glabrous; branches appearing truncate with
a ring of bristles, capped by a short conical apex. (National Herb.,
Pretoria, No. 2990.)
PLATE 200.--Fig. 1, ray-floret; Fig. 2, ray-achene; Fig. 3,
disc-floret; Fig. 4, disc-achene; Fig. 5, stamen.
F.P.S.A., 1925.
INDEX TO VOLUME V.
PLATE
ALOE ARBORESCENS _var._ FRUTESCENS, 187
ALOE CHABAUDII, 164
ALOE FEROX, 169
ALOE MARLOTHII, 171
ALOE RUPESTRIS, 178
ALOE SESSILIFLORA, 180
ATHRIXIA ELATA, 195
CEROPEGIA HAYGARTHII, 191
COTYLEDON ORBICULATA, 161
CRASSULA COLUMNARIS, 173
CRASSULA LATICEPHALA, 189
CRASSULA ROSULARIS, 167
DERMATOBOTRYS SAUNDERSII, 188
DIMORPHOTHECA CUNEATA, 200
ERICA BLENNA _var._ GRANDIFLORA, 199
EUPHORBIA TRIDENTATA, 197
GAZANIA SUFFRUTICOSA, 183
GLADIOLUS CRUENTUS, 182
GLADIOLUS ORCHIDIFLORUS, 165
GLADIOLUS TRICHOSTACHYS, 163
GLADIOLUS TRISTIS, 175
HAEMANTHUS ALBIFLOS, 190
HYPOXIS ROOPERI, 172
LACHENALIA RUBIDA _var._ TIGRINA, 184
LACHENALIA TRICOLOR, 166
LEUCADENDRON HUMIFUSUM, 170
LISSOCHILUS SPECIOSUS, 168
ORNITHOGALUM ODORATISSIMUM, 194
PROTEA HARMERI, 192
PROTEA MUNDII, 185
PROTEA PITYPHYLLA, 177
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