202 DEVELOPMENT OF THE OVULUM 
11. Ovule after fecundation ? 
‘ll a. Same long section; a. testa ; 6. apex of inner cont, 
the only part I can detect; c. nucleus ; d. embryo- 
nary sac. 
11 à. Embryonary sac separated, it still remains attach- 
ed to apex of nucleus. 
12. Ovary more advanced ; a. drupaceous coat originat- 
ing from endocarp ; b. seed. 
12 a. Longitudinal section of ovule. Same letters have 
; the same references as No. 
13. Mature fruit, pulp of a purplish colour ; a. drupace- 
ous coat ; b. nucleary coat ; c. embryonary sac, albu- 
men of; d. embryo, the inner coat is not distin- 
guishable, the outer I believe adheres to the drupe, 
except at its base, the hardness of the drupaceous 
portion renders the examination of the fruit, so far 
as the coats of the seed are concerned, a matter of 
some difficulty. 
Burral River : June 15th, 1838. 
ScEPACEE,—PLATE. LIV. 
The pericarpial leaves appear to be situated right and left. 
. The stigmata are four, more or less distinct, or more or less 
combined in pairs, and when this is the case the union takes 
place between two belonging to different carpella. Hence 
the compound stigmata will be anterior and posterior. I 
look upon this as a proof that the stigma of a carpellary leaf 
is never a single organ, moreover, that it is a double organ, 
each originating from the carrying up as it were of the lax 
involute margins of the leaf. There is no indication of any 
consequence that the fruit is formed on a quarternary plan. 
in, the union of the stigmata of different carpella goes far 
to prove that such occurs in all the instances of stigmata 
opposed to the placentze. 
