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is seen to consist of three carpels with three styles (Fig. 81, St.), 
forming three loculi with one campylotropous ovule in each (Fig. 82). 
The placental column is well seen (Fig. 1, p.c.), the ovules being 
inserted at its apex, which is what one would expect. The dissepi¬ 
ments are of the usual spongy character, thickening in juxtapo¬ 
sition to the placental column and forming partial septation only in 
connection with it. They are also connected by a few strands of 
Cerastium quaternellum. Slightly oblique longitudinal section of ovary of 
anomalous flower. 
tissue with the carpellary walls. The epidermis of the secondary 
carpels is lignified at the apex (Fig 81, lig. e), as is the case with 
those of the primary whorl. 
So that, apart from the great reduction in the number of the 
ovules, which is clearly in relation to space and food-supply, this 
secondary ovary is seen to be an exact replica of the primary one. 
In the stage seen, the styles cannot extrude, but that would not 
preclude fertilization, as any unannexed pollen-tubes could find 
their way down the conducting tissue of the primary ovary to the 
styles of the secondary one. 
