fruit is thick, coriaceous, roundish, three-lobed, three-celled, 
and three-valved, the dissepiments arising from the middle 
of the valves. In the centre is a columella or receptacle, 
near the top of which the seeds are fixed, and are thus pen- 
dent. Each cell contains from one to three seeds, of a 
roundish form ; but more or less angular, according to the 
pressure of the neighbouring seeds. In the Waratah the 
seeds are almost black ; in the single red, almost of a ches- 
nut brown. Integument thick, and almost nucumenta- 
ceous: filled in the interior with the embryo, which takes 
exactly the same shape. Radicle superior, directed to the 
scar of theseed. Cotyledons thick, unequal, plumule small. 
Fig. 1. Fully-formed fruit of the Waratah Camellia. 2. Section of the — 
Pericarp, shewing the Seeds. 3, 4. Seeds of the single Red Camellia. 5. 
Section of a Seed of ditto, shewing the unequal Cotyledons, the Radicle, and 
Plumule. 6. The two Cotyledons separated: the one on the left hand side 
containing the Radicle and Plumule ; the other is. simply one of the Cotyle- 
dons, with an excavation, in which the one-half of the Radicle and Plumule 
were immersed :—All of the natural size. 
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