4 7 6 Stiles. — The Podocarpeae. 
from species of Eupodocarpus so far examined. In the outer layers of the 
integument in the young ovules there is a ring of what appear to be 
Text-fig. 7. Diagrams of transverse sections through an ovule of Podocarpus nagi to show 
the distribution of vascular tissue, a, Near the micropylar end. b y A little higher up. ^Through 
the middle of the ovule. d, Towards the chalazal end. a-d, ascending vascular bundles. 
a-d, descending vascular bundles. 
undifferentiated vascular bundles connected with the vascular bundles of 
the epimatium by means of undifferentiated or only partly differentiated 
strands . 1 Later these strands become more noticeable, until in the old seed 
1 Compare the state of affairs in Torreya , where the supply of the inner integument is similarly 
undifferentiated (Oliver (’ 03 ), p. 469). On general grounds, however, it does not seem possible to 
connect the structure of the Torreyan with that of the Nageian ovule. 
