dehisces

FRUIT: A capsule to 4.5 cm long which dehisces releasing cream, brown to black seeds depending on variety.

Chapter 7 1999

The seed vessel, which dehisces horizontally, contains many small, heart-shaped seeds.

The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891

The botanists tell me that its fruit "dehisces loculicidally," which I suppose is botanic for "splits like boxes," (but boxes shouldn't split, and didn't, as we used to make and handle them before railways).

Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859

The structure of the capsules is of more consequence; for there is a variety in which the envelope of the capsule dehisces spontaneously when ripe, so that the seed is easily shed; and another, in which the seed remains enclosed within the capsules, which must be opened in order to extract it. "

Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs 1863