l6o THE EVOLUTION OF MAN. 



To the Lidecidua, or lower Placental Animals, belong 

 two very cornprelitinsive and important vertebrate groups : 

 (1) the Hoofed Animals (Ungidata) — the Tapirs, Horses, 

 Swine, Kuminants, and others ; (2) the Whale-like animals 

 (Cetomorpha) — the Sea-cows, Porpoises, Dolphins, Whales, 

 a.nd others. In all these Tndecidua the chorion tufts are 

 distributed, singly or in bunches, over the entire surface of 

 the chorion, or over the greater part of it. They are' but very 

 loosely attached to the mucous membrane of the uterus, so 

 that the entire outer egg-membrane with its tufts might 

 easily and without using force be drawn out of the depressions 

 in the uterine mucous membrane, just as the hand is with- 

 drawn from a glove. The two "vascular cakes" do not 

 really coalesce at any point of their contact. Hence, at 

 birth the "embryonic cake" {placenta foetalis) is alone 

 removed ; the " maternal cake " (placenta uterina) is not 

 displaced. The entire mucous membrane of the gravid 

 uterus is but little altered, and, at parturition, suffers no 

 direct loss of substance. 



The structure of the placenta in the second and higher 

 division of Placental Animals, the Deciduata, is very dif- 

 ferent. To this comprehensive and very highl}^ developed 

 mammalian group belong all Beasts of Prey and all Insect- 

 eaters, Gnawers (Rodentia), Elephants, Bats, Semi-apes, and, 

 lastly. Apes and Man. In all these Deciduata the whole 

 surface of the chorion is also at first thickly covered witli 

 tufts. These, however, afterwards disappear from part of 

 the surface, while they develop all the more vigorously in 

 the remainder. The smooth chorion (chorion Iceve, Fig. 198, 

 chl) thus becomes distinct from the tufted chorion (chorion 

 frondosum, Fig. 198, chf). On the former there are only 



