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GENERAL BOTANY 



free of the central axis, which remains standing, it is 

 called a septifragal capsule. And when the cells come 

 quite free of each other, but do not split open at the 

 back, so as to appear like so many follicles, the fruit 

 is a septicidal capsule (fig. 54). 



FIG. 53. FRUIT OF BIXA ORELLANA, L. 



There are also other ways in which capsules open, 

 it may be by a slit, pyxis, or by holes at the top, as 

 in the Poppy, or by the top coming off like a lid as 

 in TRIANTHEMA, and EUCALYPTUS or quite irregularly 

 as in IPOM^A BILOBA and THESPESIA POPULNEA. 



INDEHISCENT FRUITS 



3. Of indehiscent fruits there are two main types 

 tke dry, and the fleshy (or sometimes woody). 



