THE FRUIT 305 
A Bacca is a berry from an inferior ovary. Examples: 
Gooseberry, Honeysuckle, Currant. 
The Pepo or Gourp Fruit is a baccate fruit of large size 
which has developed from an inferior ovary. It is fleshy 
internally and has a tough or very hard rind. Examples: Fruits 
of the Cucurbitacee and the Banana, Fig. 229 (2). ; 
The Hesperipium is a large, thick-skinned, succulent fruit 
with seeds embedded in the pulp but from a superior ovary. 
Examples: Orange, Grape-fruit, Lemon, etc. In each of these 
there is to be noted a glandular leathery epicarp, a sub-leathery 
mesocarp and an endocarp in the form of the membranous cover- 
Fic. 229.—Baccate fruits. 1, Berry (uva) of Belladonna with adherent calyx; 
2, Pumpkin, cut transversely illustrating a pepo fruit; (A), a locule; 3, hesperidium” 
fruit of the Orange cut transversely showing epicarp (e), mesocarp (m), endocarp 
(en), pulp (p), and seed (s). 
ings of separate carpels. From the endocarp hairs grow inward 
into the carpellary cavities and become filled with succulence. 
The seeds lie amid the hair cells, Fig. 229 (3). 
V. Drupaceous Fruits (succulent fruits in which the meso- 
carp is more or less succulent, but the endocarp leathery or 
stony).—A Drupe is a one-celled, generally one-seeded, dru- 
paceous fruit such as the fruit of the Plum, Peach, Prune, Sabal, 
Rhus, Piper, Cherry, etc., whose endocarp or putamen is com- 
posed wholly of stone cells or stone cells and sclerenchyma fibers, 
Fig. 230 (1). 
The Pome is a fleshy, drupaceous fruit, usually 5-carpelled, 
with a tough epicarp, succulent or fleshy mesocarp, and leathery 
or stony endocarp, the chief bulk of which consists of the adherent 
torus. Quince, Apple and Pear are examples. The carpels 
