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 1 2 per cent, of the weight of the pericarp (fruit less 

 the seeds), and about 1 5 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, 



37)- 



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. 325327 and p. 26 for the determination of the drying regimes of 

 fruits and seeds. 



(1) 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) /Esculus Hippocastanum, (pp. 323, 326). See also pp. 263, 269, 



284, 33> 3 20 - 



