154 Plants and their Ways in South Africa 



dry rattle of last year's pods bids us examine the flowers of 

 this season. We find a small white flower with four petals 



Fig. 153.— Melon. Flowering branch, with male and female flower. 

 (From Henslow's " South African Flowering Plants".) 



terminating a branch. The calyx is small, even in the bud 

 hardly covering the flower. The large ovary below is sur- 

 mounted by a four-angled honey gland and two short stigmas. 

 Opposite the sepals are four small bodies that look like the 



