758 PROF. W. H. FLOWER ON ZLURUS FULGENS. [ Nov. 15, 
trical, and not passing across the middle line. Beyond the posterior 
molar teeth the palate is quite smooth, and the cavity of the mouth 
becomes narrow and tubular, the soft palate terminating by a thin 
straight edge, without uvula, rather more than an inch behind the 
end of the middle line of the hard palate. 
On each side of the fauces, opposite the root of the tongue, tlie 
tonsils appear as very distinct, longitudinally disposed, saccular de- 
pressions, 7 inch in length, the inferior margins of which are 
everted, hard, and tumid, and form conspicuous elongated fusiform 
elevations. 
The tongue appears to have no special extensibility. It is rather 
thick and fleshy in its posterior half. Its dorsal surface is flat 
anteriorly. From the base it slightly widens forwards to the middle, 
then gradually narrows towards the apex, which is somewhat ab- 
ruptly truncated. It is 3" long from base to tip, 1*1" in greatest 
breadth, *5'' wide close to the tip; the apex projects ‘8! beyond the 
freenum. 
The papille are small and soft, consisting of numerous small, 
rounded ‘conical ’”’ papillee (which are longer and more pointed at 
the base and edges than elsewhere), scattered ‘‘ fungiform ”” papillae— 
and an irregular V-shaped group of “circumvallate”’ papilla, of 
which there are seven on the left and but four on the right side ; 
two of the latter, however, are of double the size of any of the others, 
and oval in shape. 
At the base of the freenum is a small flattened, bilobed sublingual 
process, *2” in width. 
The lower border of the parotid gland is nearly straight, 2" from 
before backwards ; above, the gland is divided into two portions, one 
rising in front of, the other behind, the meatus auditorius ; the 
latter is twice the size of the former. The duct leaves the anterior 
inferior angle of the gland, and runs directly forwards across the 
masseter muscle, and enters the mouth opposite the hinder edge of 
the third premolar. The submaxillary gland is small and oval, 
broader behind than in front, somewhat compressed, 1" in length, 
*5' in greatest thickness, with a small accessory gland composed of 
very loosely connected lobules lying at the upper anterior border, 
and which has a distinct duct which joins the main duct of the sub- 
maxillary half an inch from the principal gland. The conjoined 
duct, 2 inches in length, terminates in an orifice at the under surface 
of the sublingual process. 
The epiglottis is in the form of an equilateral triangle, each side of 
which is 3 long. The apex is scarcely at all rounded. Both upper 
and lower vocal cords are very distinct, with a well-marked ventricle 
between them. The upper or false cords are very thin, but promi- 
nent, ridges; the bower or true vocal cords are flattened bands, 
with the upper edge the most distinct. The thyroid cartilage is 
very narrow fromm above downwards, measuring but 15" in the 
middle of each ala. Anteriorly it has a deep median notch in the 
inferior border. Near the external end of the same border is a well- 
tharked triangular eminence, projecting forwards and outwards, to 
