78 DEVELOPMENT OF THE FLOWER. 
the separation of the lobes, and the stigmatic surfaces would 
occupy the whole surface of the divisions. 
But in an early stage the divisions of the ovary are of 
unequal extent, two deeper, evidently pointing out the limits 
of carpellary leaves, two styloid divisions. 
The ovary itself is evidently bicarpellary. 
In Saponaria of Hindostan, the stigmatic surface occupies 
a narrow line, extending the whole length of the style on the 
inner side: this line becomes wider and more developed 
towards the apex, the whole of which it also occupies. PI. 
30—Fig. 3, e 
The ovary d. Fig. 3, has four vascular fascicles, those 
corresponding to sinuses of carpellary leaves send slight 
ramifications from their apices to the dorsal vessels. The 
placental supplies are peculiar, as must be the case, in all 
‘free central placenta. 
Composite have essentially linear stigmata with a con- 
fluence of the superior sinus. Pl. 30—Fig. 3, e. 
The termination of the vessel below the point where the 
stigmatic surface may begin to be reffexed (?) to the dorsum 
of the style, appears constant. 
Ranunculus sceleratus, has a very indistinct stigma; the 
vessel is single, very clavate, the raphe (if there be one,) at - 
any rate, the dorsum of the ovule, is next the placental 
suture. Pl. 33—Fig. 13 
In Veronica Anagallis, the adhesion between the stigmatic 
faces takes place very early; or rather, even at a very very 
early period, there are but obscure traces of the composition 
of the pistillum. 
The anthers are of large size before the corolla has qe 
made its appearance. 
The adhesion between the styles is perfect, but the vessels 
are aie these are the dorsal ones, a small marginal one also 
The pistillum at a very early period, is a fleshy body, de- 
pressed at its apex into a concavity, at a still earlier period 
there are two depressions. Pl. 29—Fig. 6 
In Melilotus albus, the ovarial vessels are 8; 2 incomplete, 
