(373) 
are free in the locules until some time after fertilization, and 
there is no expression of a tendency toward the development 
of spongy tissue until] much later. The ovary of Fevzllea is 
in its earlier stages imperfectly divided into three locules and 
A 
Fic. 3. ag ene of the gynoecium. 
apical region of s ; BOD, fl 
£, trausverse Re “of young ovary. /to/, 
ment of Coccinta. K to O, Mic pia &, apex of shoot; Z to O, longi- 
tudinal sections through young ovary 
communication of the interior of the ovary with the exterior 
is maintained by the imperfect fusion of the ingrowing folds 
to a much greater degree than is to be found in any such 
form as Melothria, Cucumus, Cucurbita, Stcyos or Cyclan- 
