no8 Thoday.—The Female Inflorescence and Ovules of 
at intervals throughout their long course up the node and remain closely 
associated with them till at the top of the node they pass out to the ovules. 
There they are joined by number of additional bundles from the main axis 
(om), at about the level at which they turn downwards (oiv), making a sharp 
angle with their former course, and run into the upper edge of the ovule. 
In G. scandens the inverse series does not make this sharp bend, but 
Text-fig. 4. A-E. Series of transverse sections through a node and internode of an inflorescence 
of G. africanum . (Letters as before; also X = concentric bundles in internode ; z = bundles with 
double origin 1 ; vbt = bract bundles with transfusion tissue ; ov = ovule.) A is from the base of an 
internode; some of the bundles are already dividing in preparation for the next node. B = base of 
bract cupule, cut obliquely, with axillary cushion covered with hairs. C = lower part of cushion, 
three series of bundles, some of the outer series are concentric. D is through the median plane of 
the ovules, showing some of the ovular supply cut in longitudinal section, but only two series in 
main axis. E = near top of ovule, showing some of the bundles supplying the upper part of ovule, 
cut both in their downward course near the edge of the section, and in their upward course attached 
to the main bundle as part of the inverse series. A concentric bundle is being re-formed in the 
cortex at the level of fusion between an ovular bundle and a main bundle. 
its whole course is in a straight line ; sloping gently outwards from the 
point of origin from the bract bundles (Text-fig. 3). 
A series of transverse sections through the node shows, first, above the 
level of the origin of the bract bundles, three concentric series of bundles; 
then the median sections through the ovules show only the two series, the 
outer being in the act of passing out into the ovules ; finally, above this 
level three series again appear (the new outer ring being formed by the 
1 See p. 1105. 
