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ON SEEDLINGS 



Cordia grandifolia, DC. (fig. 533). 



Fruit a drupe, or rather a nut when mature and dry, four-celled, 

 but usually only one cell contains a perfect embryo, which is 

 transverse to the axis and oblong-subreniform, closely covered with 

 fine adpressed hairs, lying in the broad, almost flattened, five-lobed 

 calyx ; pericarp crustaceous when dry or subcoriaceous ; endocarp 

 bony, except at the receptacle where a cavity is left filled with 

 rather soft, cortical, pale-coloured tissue, nearly smooth except on 



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FIG. 533. Cordia grandifolia. A, fruit, x 4 : Ca, calyx ; ap, apex of fruit. 

 B, endocarp and seed, or nut, x 4 : AS, attachment to receptacle ; ap, apex 

 of nut ; ac, ac, aborted cells of ovary. C, transverse section of nut, x 4 : 

 ac, ac, ac, aborted cells of ovary ; Ic, large cell usually containing a seed, 

 but here empty. 



the upper side which is raised into numerous tooth-like elevations, 

 smooth and differently coloured on the ventral aspect near the top, 

 denoting the presence of the three aborted lobes of the ovary. A 

 transverse section of this part showed one large and three small 

 cavities, the latter of which were empty. 



Cordia subcordata, Lam. (fig. 534). 



Fruit a nut (by some called a drupe) enclosed in the enlarged 



