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uni-locular, and contains a single pendulous ovule in each loculus. Each 
of the two styles is expanded at its base into the dsc, which crowns the 
apex of the ovary and is termed the stylopode. ‘The fruit is a bipartite 
I. as 
Fic. 512.—I. Fruit of coriander, Corzandrum sativune (Coelosperme) ; II. transverse 
section (magnified). 
schizocarp or cremocarp, separating from below upwards, two halves 
(mericarps) separating from the columella or carpophore, the carpophore 
itself splitting from the apex halfway down or to the base (Fig. 509). 
lip | II. 
Fic. 513.—I. Leaf of 4thusa; II. leaf of parsley (nature-printed). 
The small embryo is enclosed in the apex of a large endosperm. The 
free and usually convex outer sides of the mericarps, which are attached 
to one another by their inner surfaces, are termed the back, and each 
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