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’t arrives to this State, it refemblcs very much a 
flfcfty Berry, green on one Side, purplift, and feme- 
times black oil the ocher, with very little Juice. 
This falfc Berry is the growing Capfule, the Side of 
which isfoft, fucculent, and very thick; which, in 
proportion as it increafes, becomes thin, membra- 
nous, dry, and brittle : In becoming thus capacious 
and thin it gives Room to a large Number of py- 
ramidal Seeds, very clofe one to another, and faf- 
rened all by their Points to a common Center, a 
kind of Placenta.^ When this Capfule is in ’its 
Perfection, its Outride is fhining, and not unlike the 
Seed of Coriander in Colour. The P ericarpium is 
as it were divided into four Loculi , by Membranes 
io delicate, that they muff be regarded with great 
Attention, to be fatisfied of their Reality. The exterior 
Form of this Fruit fufficiently Ihews this Diviflon, by 
its Roundncis being interrupted by four flight Ribs 
like thofe of a Melon, which (hews as many Cells! 
The Membranes, which divide thefe Cells, arife 
from the Placenta, and arc inferted into the Sides 
of the Capfule. 
I lie Seeds, which fill all the Capfule, amount to 
about lour Oi fl\e dozen, according as they are more 
or lets nourifhed ; becaufe the larger ones receiving 
more Nourifh.ment, make the fmaller ones abortive^ 
They are always fb prefled in their Apartments, 
that their pyramidal Figure is owing only to this 
Preflure, which arifes from their reciprocal Increafe. 
The pyramidal Points of thefe Seeds are crooked 
in fomc, and bent in others, according to the Di- 
rection given them in their growing. Their Colour 
is red or brown, and always fornewhat fhining. 
Remarks . 
