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ridges. Where it meets the latter side there is a small cavity 
in the outer shell of the nut, which apparently indicates the 
third loculus. In cross section this cavity is one centimetre 
in length (measured along the outer shell) and one and a half 
millimetres broad ; it is almost filled with a comparatively 
soft, brownish -white tissue. 
The endosperm of both loculi was normal. The usual three 
micropylar orifices are present, two of them normal and 
symmetrically situated, one on either side of the partition, while 
the other is situated over the partition and is blocked by it. 
A second specimen is almost identical with that already 
described. Its shape, the position of the external ridges, the 
nature of the micropylar orifices, the line of origin of the 
partition, and the indication of the third loculus are all 
exactly the same as in the previous example. Its median 
cross section is an ellipse, whose major axis is 4J inches and 
minor axis 3f inches. The partition, however, does not 
coincide with the direction of the minor axis, but curves 
strongly to one side, so that the cross section of one loculus is 
a circle, a little more than 3 inches in diameter, while that 
of the other is a lune, about an inch broad in the middle. 
Both loculi contained normal endosperm. 
A different kind of “ doubleness ” was brought to my notice 
in 1914 by a specimen, which the finder had considered 
sufficiently strange to be worthy of exhibition at the Matara 
Agricultural Show. It consists of two nuts developed within 
the same husk. 
The specimen is inches in length. The two nuts are 
unequally developed, and neither is normally shaped. In 
median cross section the larger shows a segment of a circle 
rather greater than a semicircle, its flat side being 4 • 9 inches 
long and its breadth, in the perpendicular direction, 3 inches ; 
while the smaller is approximately a semicircle, 3*8 inches along 
the flat side and 2 • 6 inches broad in the perpendicular direction. 
The two nuts lie with their flat faces opposed to one another, 
and separated by a layer of coir (tissue of the husk) from 2 to 
6 mm. in thickness. Their angles are rounded off, so that a 
broad fissure runs down each side of the double nut. The 
curved parts of the walls of the two nuts are of normal 
