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escape of the pollen. The pistil is eomposed of two 
carpels, which at first are closely united, and bear a 
single style capped by a curious fiat orbicular disk, on 
the summit of which the stigma is seated. As the fruit 
ripens, the carpels separate, and become two unequal 
follicles, which diverge from their bases, and burst along 
the upper edges, bearing many seeds. 
