494 STUDIES IN SEEDS AND FRUITS 



NOTE 26 (pp. 289, 325, 354). 



The ^^ replum " of Entada polystachya. 



In this genus the replum is the name applied to the persistent 

 border of the legume by which the joints are held together. It is 

 really a bifurcating fruit-stalk, the two branches thinning off consider- 

 ably until they unite at the distal end of the pod. In the moist fruit 

 it makes up about 12 per cent, of the weight of the pericarp (fruit less 

 the seeds), and about 15 per cent, in the dry fruit. 



NOTE 27 (p. 309). 

 The Water-Contents of the Coco-nut. 



It will be noticed that whilst the husk of the green full-sized fruit 

 is employed, the other materials belong to the ripe fruit (see pp. 305, 



307)- 



The data given for the air-drying of the kernel and embryo on 

 p. 41 1 differ a little from those above, though the contrast between 

 them is the same. 



NOTE 28 (pp. 325-327). 



Further details supplementing the materials given in the tables on 

 pp. 325-327 and p. 26 for the determination of the drying regimes of 

 fruits and seeds. 



(i) Achras Sapota^ p. 325. — In two-seeded fruits the pericarp-propor- 

 tion would be 98 per cent., and in ten-seeded fruits 88 per 

 cent. 



(2) Acrocomia^ pp. 26, 325. — See under Palms (p. 499). 



(3) Msculus Hippocastanum^ (pp. 323, 326). See also pp. 263, 269, 



284, 3035 320. 



