Fig. 9. 
48D: 
11. 
12. 
13. 
14, 
15. 
16. 
1 gs 
18. 
19. 
in the Female Flower of Dammara australis. 191 
from between the apices of the carpels (c,c). The extremity of the 
ovule is thinned off or compressed antero-posteriorly. 
Longitudinal mesial section of a flower, a little older than the pre- 
ceding ; (br) portion of base of bract, (a) anterior higher, an (6) 
posterior lower wall of the pistil. The extremity of the ovule com- 
pressed to an edge, which is slightly curved forwards, is well seen. 
Flower considerably further advanced. The thin margin of the pistil 
on the left side is now becoming developed as a wing (w), while 
that opposite (m) remains small; (ov) ovule exposed between the 
apices of the carpels. 
Longitudinal mesial section of a similar flower ; (br), (a), (6), and (ov) 
as in fig. 9. The edge of the termination of the ovule (ov) has 
here become developed into a lamina (/), which is turned over upon 
the anterior surface of the exposed portion of the ovule. 
Pistil much further developed (in second season ?); (w) the developed, 
and (m) the undeveloped, wing of the pistil, the great wing being 
here on the right side. 
Portion of the extremity of the same, showing a small irregularly- 
shaped lamina (/) turned over upon the anterior surface of the ex- 
posed portion of the ovule, between the apices of the carpels (c, c). 
Portion of the extremity of the nucleus from a flower of the same age, 
with its leaf-like process (2) elegantly pointed. The carpels have 
been removed. 
Longitudinal section of bract, with its flower at a stage corresponding 
to fig. 5; (br) bract, (fl) flower. 
Similar section, at a stage corresponding to that in fig. 9. 
Similar section, corresponding to fig. 10. 
Similar section, corresponding to fig. 12; (p) walls of pistil; (ow) 
ovule; («) vascular bundle supplying the pistil; (w) mesial vas- 
cular bundle of the bract. 
Similar section from cone in its third season (?). 
Observations upon Sixteen Ancient Human Skulls found in 
Excavations made on the Kirkhill, St Andrews, 1860. 
By JoserH BarnarD Davis, F.S.A., &. (With a Table 
of Measurements). Communicated to the Literary and 
Philosophical Society, St Andrews. 
This series of fine skulls is of considerable interest from 
their unquestionable antiquity, the district in which they have 
been obtained, and from the peculiar aboriginal, or commonly 
named Celtic, air which pervades one section of them. This 
latter aspect it may be difficult to describe, but it will be at 
