496 STUDIES IN SEEDS AND FRUITS 



(b) Caklle maritima, dry fruit from England : 



Upper joint, less seed 

 Seed of upper joint . 

 Lower joint, less seed 

 Seed of lower joint 



0-5 



0-2 

 0-13 



0-07 



gram 



(12) Canavalia gladiata^ p. 326. This is C. gladiata, DC, the variety 



with red seeds (see Note 5, p. 471). 



(13) Canavalia ensiformis, p. 326. This is C.gladiata, DC, the variety 



(ensiformis] with white seeds (see Note 5, p. 471). 



(14) Canna indica^ p. 326. The pericarp, which makes up 39 per cent. 



of the moist fruit, is thus composed : 



Outer soft tubercles or spines scaling 

 off as the fruit dries and losing 

 90 per cent, of their weight in the 

 process . . . . 10 per cent. 



Pericarp proper, which loses 80 per cent, 

 of its moist weight as the fruit 

 dries . . . . . . 29 



39 



(15) Caryota^ p. 327. Regarding the fruit as a berry, the pericarp- 



proportion would be 22 per cent, in the dry fruit. 



(16) Citrus^ p. 325. In another moist fruit of the Common Orange 



(Citrus Aurantium\ weighing 3500 grains and containing 15 



PROPORTION OF PARTS IN DIFFERENT SPECIES OF CITRUS. 



Note that the number of the seeds is in brackets. 



