114 CASPOLOGY: FUy-CTIOKS AXD STRUCTURE OF THE FRUIT 



In such case the carpels, after separating through their septa, are not 

 necessarily open, and unless the dehiscence shall follow the wall into and 



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S/S. 



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Fig. 314. Fruit of ^ia^^nwm dischargmg its seeds and waterj- contents. 315. Loculicidallj- dehiscent 

 pod of Iris. 316. Septicidally dehiscent pod of Hypericum. 317. Transverse diagram of a margini- 

 cidally dehiscent pod. 



Fig. 318. Apical dehiscence of Cer(ist\um. 319. The same, Eucalyptus. 320. Circumscissile. dehis- 

 cence of Mitracarjms. 321. Basal dehiscence of Jussiaea. 322. The same in Cinchona. 323. Apical 

 dehiscence of Ladenbergia. 324. Dehiscence by apical plug (6) in Bertholetia. 325. Apical dehiscence 

 of PsyUocarpus. 326. Oblique dehiscence of Staelia. 327. Partial dehiscence of Jeffersonxa. 328. 

 Dehiscence by apical pore in Siphocampylos. 



through the ventral suture, which it more frequently does not, the 

 dehiscence ^\t11 be Incomplete and the carpels may even act as separate 

 indehiscent fruits. If dehiscence occur at the dorsal suture (Fig. 315) 



