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and orthotropous ; but two of the ovules usually disappear before matur- 
ing into seeds. The fruit is a one- or three-seeded drupe or berry, the 
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Fis. 471.—Seaforthia elegans, a feather-palm (greatly reduced), 
seed consisting of a minute embryo buried in a very large oily or 
horny endosperm, which is at first milky, afterwards solid, and often 
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