CHAPTER XV 



POLLINATION AND FERTILIZATION 



Throughout the Colony a bush two or three feet high with 

 smooth Unear leaves grows on dry hillsides. The whole plant 



I. II. 



Fig. 133. — Motitinia acris. I. Branch tipped by 

 an ovary. II. Branch bearing staminate 

 flowers. 



Fig. \ii,.—Cliffortia rusci- 

 folia, L., with one stami- 

 nate flower. II. Section 

 through female flower. 

 (From Edmonds 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, are not so very pretty, but the 

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



