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Fruit baccate, two- to four-angled or -lobed when mature, gla- 

 brous, two- to four- celled, with a seed in each cavity that develops 

 and comes to maturity, and falling away into as many nuts or drupes 

 as there are locelli. 



Seed ascending or erect from the base of the inner angle of the 

 cell, somewhat compressed dorso-ventrally, and slightly curved 

 longitudinally, and more or less wrinkled in that direction when dry, 

 glabrous, whitish, exalbuminous ; testa thin, membranous ; hilum 

 and micropyle basal, contiguous ; funicle short, broad, and thin ; 

 chalaza apical, superior. 



Embryo comparatively large, filling the entire seed and conform - 



FIG. 586. Clerodendron Kcempferi. Nat. size. 



ing to it in outline, slightly curved accordingly, colourless ; cotyle- 

 dons oblong, obtuse, entire, or very shallowly auricled at the base, 

 lying in the broader plane of the seed with their backs to the axis 

 of the fruit, thick, fleshy, plano-convex; radicle very minute, 

 globose, obtuse, lying in the very base of the seed and projecting 

 only slightly beyond the cotyledons. 



Seedling (fig. 586). 



Hypocotyl rather succulent, terete, 2 cm. long, 2-5 mm. thick, 

 pubescent, bright green. 



Cotyledons stalked, about 3 cm. long, 1-5 cm. wide, ovate, oblique 

 at the base, obtuse, shallowly irregularly dentate towards the apex ; 



