17 



Tetragonia expansa, Ait. (fig. 403). 



Ovary inferior, of many carpels, many-celled, with one pendulous, 

 campylotropous ovule in each cell ; micropyle superior. 



Fruit a nut, more or less compressed on two sides when dry, 



FIG. 404. Tetragonia expansa, x 4 A, seedling from a seed that had 

 been removed from the fruit before sowing. B, fruit soaked in water before 

 sowing. C, another, soaked in water before sowing. D, seedling after it 

 has left the fruit. 



variously angled, free at the apex, furnished above the middle with 

 four to five horns, with the three- to five-lobed calyx a little higher 

 up, glabrous or nearly so, but somewhat scabrous, hard and woody 

 when dry, many-celled with one seed in each cell, indehiscent. 

 , Seed suspended from the top of the cell by a long slender funicle, 



