Fruit 71⁄2 lines (18 mm.) high, eleven to twelve weeks after fertilisation.
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Fruit, seventeen or eighteen weeks after fertilisation.
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Full-grown fruit with upper portion of seedling just before detachment from the tree. The long tapering plumule is here inclosed in the cotyledonary body. The * indicates the point of detachment of the seedling.
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The cotyledonary body of Fig. 8.
9A.
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9C.
9D.
Illustrating different stages in the development of the plumule and of the neck of the cotyledonary body resulting finally in the expulsion of the plumular end of the seedling from the fruit cavity as in Fig. 8. (See page [458].)
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