FRUITS AND SEEDS 



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is a collection of achenes, the fruits of Sunflower 

 and other plants of the same family may also be 

 called achenes. Rice, usually named caryopsis, is 

 also an achene (see fig. 8). Cocoa-nut, Betel -nut, 

 &c., are nuts. The fruits in which the pericarp ex- 



Figf. 143. — Samaras 



pands into one or more flat limbs or wings are known 

 as (iii) SAMARA (fig. 143) or winged fruit, as madhabi- 

 lata, chuprhi-aloo. 



An aggregate fruit, like that of aswathwa, bot, and 

 dumur, is known as syconus; if like that of Pine- 

 apple, Mulberry, Pandanus (kia), or Jack-fruit (kantal) 

 it is known as SOROSIS; and those like the fruits of 

 Coniferce are cones= 



