. A manual of Indian botany. Botany. FRUITS AND SEEDS '5o forming a collective mass. These fruits are there- fore spurious in the sense explained above, and as each of them is not the product of a single flower, but of many flowers or of an inflorescence, they are also known as collective fruits. In the Jack-fruit, for instance, when the skin and the edible parts are removed, a long, fleshy, more or less cylindrical stalk is exposed, which is nothing more than the axis or rachis of the spike or spadix which matures into the fruit. Every con- ical bit on the skin of the fruit represents a singl
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. A manual of Indian botany. Botany. FRUITS AND SEEDS '5o forming a collective mass. These fruits are there- fore spurious in the sense explained above, and as each of them is not the product of a single flower, but of many flowers or of an inflorescence, they are also known as collective fruits. In the Jack-fruit, for instance, when the skin and the edible parts are removed, a long, fleshy, more or less cylindrical stalk is exposed, which is nothing more than the axis or rachis of the spike or spadix which matures into the fruit. Every con- ical bit on the skin of the fruit represents a single flower of the inflorescence, from the conglomeration of which the fruit has been formed. Such a succulent collective fruit is kriown as a soROSis. The fruit of toont or Mulberry is also a sorosis. The fruit of aswathwa, hot, and dumur consists of an excavated jug-shaped axis or rachis of an inflorescence within which are in- serted the minute fruits which are popularly mistaken for seeds. Such a fruit hais been named a syconus. The structure of the latter fruits agrees closely with that of the hip of the Rose, but there is this essential difference between them: the former are the products of many flowers and the latter of only a single flower, '. c, Cone. Figr. 136.—Pinus ca, Carpellary leaf witll two seeds. 5, Wing^ed seed removed.. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.. Bose, G. C. London, Blackie & Son Ltd.