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at hand, and favoured too perhaps in some measure by the 
source of the vascular supplies of the placenta. 
I have however found most of the anomalous instances 
cited in favour of non-uniformity, to be so easily, and I think 
naturally explicable, particularly Orobanchez, Papaveracee, 
and I hope Orchidez and Cruciferz, that I am disinclined 
to allow the possibility of such an instance except on the 
clearest proofs. 
.. One thing is certain at any rate, from the evidence of P. 
cerulescens, that an ovarium inferum may have part of its 
cells and even placentz and ovula superior to the plane or 
line which we were to draw, when we make use of the term 
ovarium inferum, which I am at present inclined to prefer 
to ovarium adherens. 
The most legitimate mode of accounting for it, is by sup- 
posing some such depression of the vertex of the ovarium, 
as shall cause the placenta to be forced outwards. 
By supposing a change in the usual direction of the axis, 
by which * and this is perhaps countenanced by ap- 
pearances in Pt. cerulescens, analogous to what occurs 
in Boraginee and Labiate and by the disposition of the 
vessels, since pea fascicles corresponding to the dorsal vein 
is towards the ax 
One of the palace SÉ is the possibility of a disturb- 
ance in the ordinary relations of an ovarium inferum, so 
that the apex shall occupy the fundus, and the base be 
ovarium — 
PI. 28, Fi 
[In pets the depression of the vertex of ae ova- 
rium suggests to me the probability of its being analogous to 
the obliquity or disturbance of direction-in Boraginez, La- 
biate and Ochnacee ? 
The vascular supplies are 4, just round the centre of axis, 
which I take to be composite placentary vessels. There is 
a large dorsal vessel, which seems to supply the placente, 

y interruption here occurs in the MS., but the blank seems to be supplied 
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