DEFINITIONS. 



1. '" Fruit consisting of the more or less enlarged truncate calyx-tube enclosing the capsule, usually 

 of a hard and woody texture, and interspersed with resinous (sic) receptacles, the persistent disk usually 

 thin and lining the orifice of the calyx-tube when the capsule is deeply sunk; concave, horizontal, convex 

 or conically projecting, and more or less contracting the orifice when the capsule is not much shorter than, 

 as long as, or longer than the calyx-tube; the capsule always adnate to the calyx-tube, although often 

 readily separable from it when quite ripe and dry, very rarely protruding from the orifice left by the disk 

 before maturity, but opening at the apex in as many valves as there are cells, which often protrude, 

 especially when acuminate by the persistent and split base of the style."' (B.F1. iii, 185). 



2. "" Fruit consisting of the variously enlarged indurated and truncated or rarely four-toothed 

 calyx-tube, and an hardened interiorly adnate capsule ; the latter with 3-5, rarely 2 or 6, wholly or partially 

 exserted or entirely enclosed valves, and with a thick central somewhat columnar or rarely pyramidal 

 axis."" (Mueller, " Eucalyptographia. ") 



3. '" The fruit is formed by the calyx-tube adnate congenitally with the ovary developed into the 

 capsule." (Xaudin.) 



4. '" Fruit a many-seeded capsule, dehiscing loculicidally at the apex.'* (Lubbock.) 



THE FRUIT IN GENERAL. 



Historical. 



Bentham, 1866. -Bentham made a minor use of the fruit for classificatory 

 purposes. What he actually said as regards the fruit (or parts of the fruit) was as 

 follows : — 



Scries V.— Normales. 

 Subseries III. — Bobuslrv. 



"" Rim of the fruit concave, with a sunk capsule.'' (13. Fl. iii, 194.) 

 Subseries IV. — CorncUr. 



" Fruit turbinate, urceolate or obovoid, the capsule not much sunk." 

 Subseriea V. — Exserlce. 



" Fruit globose or depressed, usually more or less contracted at the orifice, the rim convex 

 or prominent, rarely flat, the capsule-valves protruding beyond it." 



Subseries V I . — Svbexse rke. 



" Fruit turbinate, the orifice not contracted, the capsule level or slightly sunk, the valves 

 often protruding when open." 



Subseries VII. — Ittclusce. 



'' Fruit more or less contracted at the orifice, the capsule sunk, the valves not protruding, 

 '•xcepting their points when acuminate by the split base of the style." 



Subseries Carymbosce- VIII.— 



" Fruit often large, more or less urceolate, the capsule deeply sunk." 



