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Fig. 17. 
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MR. J. MIERS ON NAPOLEONA, OMPHALOCARPUM, AND ASTERANTHOS. 
А fruit, the smaller specimen in the Kew Museum, viewed sideways, with a quarter segment cut 
away, to show the conglomerate-like structure of the thick pericarp, the persistent style, the 
singular hollow axis, and the solitary seed in each cell, attached to the axis. 
А moiety of the same fruit, seen in transverse section, showing the many radiating cells placed 
round the large hollow axis, each with a single seed attached in the axes. 
One of the seeds (like that of Lucuma) shown on its face. 
The same, shown on its ventral edge, which is grooved where the ascending raphe is imbedded, 
and in the bottom of which a very small hilum is seen. 
A longitudinal section of the same, parallel with its faces, showing the enclosed nucleus. 
The nucleus extracted, seen on its edge. 
A longitudinal section of the same parallel to the faces, showing the embryo enclosed in thin 
corneous albumen. 
. Тһе embryo extracted, seen on its face. 
. The same, shown on its edge. 
. À seed from the larger specimen of the fruit in the Kew Museum, shown on its face. 
. The same shown on its ventral edge, which is channelled by the raphigerous groove, in the 
bottom of which is seen the hilum, A, and near its summit the perforation, f, through which the 
chord of the raphe passes into the interior. Near the basal point the micropyle, т, is dis- 
tinctly seen; this structure is precisely that of Lucuma and Imbricaria, shown by Gaertner. 
