120 Plants and their Ways in South Africa 



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

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

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



FiG. 135. — Melon. Flowering branch, with male and female flower. (From 

 Henslow's "South African Flowering Plants.") 



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

 Opposite the sepals are four small bodies that look like the 

 unfulfilled promise of stamens. What is the flower to do with- 

 out pollen ? 



