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seed borne midway up the placenta of each locule. 

 It is indehiscent, the seed being Uberated by the 

 decay of the walls of the fruit. It would appear, 

 therefore, that this fruit could not be called a 

 pod or a capsule, since the definition of those 

 fruits includes dehiscence; but this fruit- is so like 

 a pod in its general structure and in being dry. 



Fig. 261. 

 Four-sided and tardily-dehiscent legumes of daubentonia. 



that it is commonly called a pod. There is no 

 distinctive technical name for this type of fruit. 



317(1. Even in the Leguminosse, or pea family (240), which pro- 

 duces the fruit taken as the type of the simple pod or legume, 

 there are plants which produce practically indehiscent poda. Observe 

 the honey locust, clover, peanut; also the daubentonia, in Fig. 261. 



318. We have now seen (307) that the compound 

 ovary of the mustard imitates a simple ovary (the 

 partition being a false one) , and the compound pod 



