\t\tThe flower with its pale is sessile, and is placed in the\xa0axil\xa0of another bract in such a way that the pale is exactly opposed to it, though at a slightly higher level.\t\t\tThe bract is not, however, the one from which the axis terminating in the flower arises, but is a bract produced upon it, and gives origin in its\xa0axil\xa0to a new axis, the basal portion FIG.\t\t\tOne argument that has been adduced in support of the\xa0axillary bud theory is derived from the Palaeozoic type Cordaites, in which each ovule occurs en an axis borne in the\xa0axil\xa0of a bract.\t\xa0\the female flowers are equally simple, consisting of a bract, from whose\xa0axil\xa0arises usually a very short stalk, surmounted by two carpels adherent one to the other for their whole length, except that the upper ends of the styles are separated into two stigmas.\t