Flowers Collection (page 6)

650. Zedoary, a Climbing Plant and Mantises, Java
The corolla of the climbing Ceropegia is remarkable in having the narrow ends of the lobes united at the tips. Zedoary root (Curcuma Zedoaria, Rosc.) is used medicinally

601. Flowers and Young Fruits of the Pinanga malaiana, Scheff

592. Two Climbing Shrubs, painted at Singapore
Quisqualis indica, L. with red and white flowers, and Thunbergia erecta, T. Anders

588. Group of Cultivated Flowers
In the foreground Dendrobium primulinum, Lindl. and Combretum grandiflorum, G. Don. with a passion-flower (Passiflora laurifolia, Linn.), the white-flowered Bauhinia variegata, Linn

531. Flowers of Tacca and bristly Fruit of the Rambutan
The long thread-like organs of Tacca cristata, Jack, are bracts which proceed from below the flowers. A favourite fruit in the Malay Archipelago is the Rambutan or Rambutan (Nephelium lappaceum)

436. Flowers of the Sandy Flats, near Cape Town
A root-parasite, Hyobanche sanguinea, Linn. at the bottom, on the right, with white Freesia Leichtlinii, Klatt, dark purple and yellow, Sparaxis tricolor, Ker

423. A Medley from Groot Post, South Africa
The prominent orange-coloured plant is a leafless root-parasite (Hyobanche sp.) with Babiana rubro-coerulea, Ker, on the right; on the left rose and yellow Rornulea sp

416. An Old Friend and its Associates in South Africa
The old friend is Pelargonium peltatum, Alt. one of the parents of the many beautiful varieties of ivy-leaved Pelargoniums now in cultivation, associated with the yellow Lissochilus speciosus, R. Br

414. Fat Plants of the Addo Bush, South Africa
Flowers of a Cotyledon with a tuft of the same, and Portulacaria afra, Jacq. (Spekboom or Elephants Food) on the right. Among the other flowers Haemanthus, a tall Aloe, and Schotia speciosa, Jacq

401. Vegetation of the Addo Bush with Kaffirs and their Habitation
Hanging from the trees in front are nests of a species of social finch different from that on the bullrushes in 400. On the right is an Aloe

396. A Selection of Flowers from Table Mountain, Cape of Good Ho
A stout fleshy ground-orchid (Satyrium carneum, R. Br.) with pink flowers; a Tree Daisy (Osmitopsis asteriscoides, Cass.), a blue Pseralea, with three species of Heath (Erica) on the left

362. White and Yellow Everlastings (with varieties of Mantis to
On the right the yellow-flowered Senecio mcacroglossus, DC. a climber with ivy-like leaves; the clustered wholly yellow Helichirysum appendiculatum, Less

203. Group of Californian Wild Flowers
Beginning in front, on the left is a yellow Columbine (Aquilegia chrysantha, A. Gr.), and behind it the dark blue Spiderwort (Tradescantia virginica, L.)

69. Wild Flowers of Casa Branca, Brazil
The principal figure having longitudinally ribbed leaves and large blue- flowers is a Melastomacea (Plerorma sp.) with an orange-flowered Tillandsia and a species of Evolvulus behind

Knautia dipsacifolia
wood scabious

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