Gardnerian^. N. O. Magnoliaceae. 



TABS. CCIX. CCX. 



Fruit of the 



TaLAUMA FRAGRANTISSIMAj 



burst open and exhibiting the seeds ; nat. size, 



This figure exhibits the fruit as it bursts naturally and irre- 

 gularly: the outer and indurated and thickened coats of the 

 united carpels thus, as it were, forming the pericarp, the interior 

 being filled with cells, and these containing each one or two 

 seeds. The pericarp, on thus separating, carries away the upper 

 half of the cells ; while the lower half, with the seeds, form the 

 surface of the receptacle. 



