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GENERAL BOTANY 



row of seeds like the legume, but open along one 

 edge only. To distinguish it from the legume, this 

 unit is termed a follicle. In MICHELIA and DELPHI- 

 NIUM the fruit consists of several follicles, in STER- 

 CULIA URENS of five, in CALOTROPIS of one, because 

 the other does not develop, in others of the family 

 ASCLEPIADACE.E, and in VINCA, NERIUM and PLU- 

 MERIA the Pagoda and Frangipanni, of two. 



FIG. 52 

 FRUIT OF STERCULIA URENS, Roxb, 



