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Cremocarp ; In the Umbelliferae, the two mericarps into which the Schizocarp 
splits remain for a long time suspended from the tips of a forked prolongation of the 
axis. For a description of Umbelliferous fruits, sec B. Fl. iii, 335. 
The cremocarp may be looked upon as a wingless Samara. 
iii. DEHISCENT DRY FRUITS. 
Follicle (with one carpel). 
Legume (with one carpel). 
Siliqua. Silicula (with more than one carpel. Dehiscence longitudinal). 
Pyxis (with more than one carpel. Dehiscence transverse). 
Follicle. Where the fruit opens by one suture (usually the ventral) only, to 
which the seeds are attached. 
Kurrajong and Sycamore and Flame Tree (Brachychiton). 
Honeysuckle (Banksia), Native Pear (Xylomelum), Waratah (Telopea), and 
some other Proteaceous plants. 
Asclepiadacese, e.g., Gomphocarpus fruticosus, the " Silk-cotton weed," a 
membranous inflated follicle, covered with long, soft prickles; Oleander (Nerium); 
Larkspur (Delphinium). 
Legume. In this kind of fruit the opening is by two sutures, the dorsal (back), 
and ventral. It is commonest called a Pod. 
Examples are the Pea, Bean, and Wattle (Acacia). This form of fruit is 
characteristic of the Leguminosse. Legumes take on an infinity of shapes, e.g. 
Triangular (Daviexia). 
Turgid or inflated (Crotalaria, Sivainsona, the Darling Pea or Indigo). 
Winged along the upper suture (Platyldbium). 
Sometimes the portions containing individual seeds break off transversely. 
This fovm of Legume is called a Loment 01 Lomentum, eg., Desmoditim, and also 
Entada, the huge pod of a scrambling tropical plant called the Queensland Bean. 
Sometimes the legume is divided into chambers or cells by transverse septa, 
as in the case of the Purging Cassia (Cathartocarpus Fistula). 
The Wattle is the Leguminous plant best known to Australians, and the 
differences in the shapes and sixes of the Legumes have been already shown in 
successive plates of the present work. 
An important character is the funiclc, sometimes thread-like, sometimes broader, 
sometimes encircling the seed once and even more, usually white, but occasionally 
coloured. It terminates more or less gradually and imperceptibly, in a fleshy cap 
fitting on the top of the seed, and known as an Aril. 
