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apicula ; usually abundance of jellylike nectar; stamens, 5, with cream-colored 
filaments, clubbed; anthers, broad, rather lavender colored when new; pollen, 
white, abundant, and massed; staminate flowers, very similar to pistillate, 
except for their smaller, rudimentary ovary. 
Fruit. — Bunch, small, open. 7 hands of about 13 fruits cadi: unedible. The 
first two or three hands have fertile seeds, the remainder arc undeveloped. 
Seeded fruits. 2% to 3 inches long; diameter five-eighths inch, curved. -1 or •"» 
angled, becoming distinct with maturity: color, green; skin, hard: pulp or 
flesh, a tough placenta which is filled with hard, flattened seeds that germinate 
in about 4 weeks. 
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