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CAPPARIDACE^K 



[CH. VI 



it has several chambers, but in others the placentae are 

 parietal and the fruit a one-chambered Berry. In Mcerua 

 (Fig. 63) the berry is elongated and constricted like a 

 Lomentum. The transition from capsule to berry is 

 shown where the fruit opens like a capsule, but is fleshy 

 a dehiscent berry. 



Fig. 62. 



Fig. 61. 



Fig. 61. Cleome spinosa, fruit dehiscing (Bai). 



Fig. 62. Dipterygium glaucum, Desne., winged indehiscent fruit 

 (E and P). 



Fig. 63. Mcerua angolensis, DC, berry (E and P). 



Forchhammeria has a berry-like fruit with a thin 

 papyraceous endocarp, and shows the transition to the 

 Drupes of Roydsia and Stixis, only we must not forget 

 that the Drupe is here formed from more than one 

 carpel. 



