The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; With Which Is Incorporated a Glossary of Botanical Terms (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; With Which Is Incorporated a Glossary of Botanical Terms

Laohnea. Cape shrubs of the nurse lacew. Deriving their name from the woolly hairs that densely clothe their flowers. The inflorescence consists of terminal nower heads. Frequently surrounded by bracts. The perianth is coloured. Tubular. Jointed below. The lower portion persistent, the limb divided into four segments, and hav ing attached to it, at its junction with the tube. Eight stamens in two rows. And as many scales (petals i) inserted lower down than the stamens. And placed opposite to the divisions of the limb. {m. T. M.)

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