Fig. 98. Structure of the primitive conduplicate carpel, Cananga. A, B, sketches 

 showing vascularization, origin of traces to the ovules from meshwork of branches 

 connecting dorsal and ventral veins; C, cross section of mature carpel showing 

 closure by interlocking of epidermal cells, inverted anatropous ovules, inner integu- 

 ment surpassing the outer, complete ovular vascular supply, d, dorsal vasculariza- 

 tion; V, ventral vascularization; dotted circles in B, place of insertion of ovules. 

 {After Periasamy and Swamy.) 



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