In Whitehead and Russell's PM, are homogenous relations the only ones that have relation numbers?

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Given the definition of ordinal similarity:

✳151.01 $P \overline{smor} Q = \hat{S}\{ S\in 1\rightarrow 1. C‘Q=ConverseD‘S. P=S^;Q\}$ Df.

$Q$ has to be homogeneous, otherwise $C‘Q$ is meaningless. It does not seem to imply that $P$ has to be homogeneous. If $P$ is heterogeneous, $smor$ would be asymmetrical, because $C‘P$ would be meaningless.

✳151.14 says $smor$ is symmetrical. In this case, I think it is presumed that $P$ is homogeneous.

Take $\iota$ for example, given an individual, say Indv, as its first term, then it forms a progression-like relation P:

Indv, {Indv}, {{Indv}}, {{{indv}}}, ...

$P$ does not have a field or a domain because $\iota$ is heterogeneous. If there is a correlator $S$ that converts P's relata to string, then $S^;P$ will be a homogeneous progression in which each term wraps a layer of $\{\}$ around the one immediately precedes itself. The cardinal number of $S^;P$'s field is $\aleph_0$.

If ordinal similarity is limited to homogeneous relations only, then the above procedure is inoperable.

Please let me know what is wrong with my reasoning.

Thanks,