CHAPTER XVIII. 

 POLLINATION AND FERTILIZATION. 



Throughout the Colony a bush two or three feet high with 

 smooth linear leaves grows on dry hillsides. The whole plant 



Fig. 151. — Montinia acris, 

 tipped by an ovary, II, 

 staminate flowers. 



L. I. Branch 

 Branch bearing 



Fig. 152. — Cliffortia 

 rtisci folia, L. I. 



staminate flower. II. 

 Section through female 

 flower. (From Ed- 

 monds and Marloth's 

 " Elementary Botany 

 for South Africa".) 



has a sharp taste, from which it gets its last name. The flowers 

 of this bush, Montinia acris ^ L., are not so very pretty, but the 



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