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blance to some species of walnut, but there is no nut within, Its 
surface is considerably rough and pitted. 
le from fig. 4, except that it is smoother, 
istinet, and form grooves rather than ridges, 
and the divisions are usually six. It evidently belongs to the 
. 4, and perhaps it is only a variety. 
hat common. I think I have found 
the same internal character. All have the same thin outer cover- 
ae and (with an exception mentioned below) retain the precise 
om which they had when hanging upon the plant or tree, on 
h 
the fruit is usually homogeneous ; but I can not discover s at 
all, tor much evidence of cells, The meridional lines on this 
Species are usually six. 
bly 4. mens of the last three varieties are sometimes considera- 
"Y flattened, but in no case have I noticed that the carboniza- 
oe firiniebed the size, 
exhibits a section of a single carpel, which is sometimes 
reveloped by breaking open a ie pl or putt similar externally 
8. 4, except that the sutures are wanting. But in fig. 7 the 
“picatp is quite thick. ‘The carpel very much resembles that of 
Fj ‘cinus communis, or castor oil plant. 
88.8 and 9 weretaken 8. 9, 10. 
leon... Stem, in fact, that I am in doubt w : 
*suminons seeds, But I find examples of almost every inter- 
ct. 
There 18 a strong resemblance between these distorted fruits, 
~~ “908e of many species of palms, as figured in Von Martius’s 
