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SPOEOZOA. 



both ends. Anterior end bears a sucker, formed as a spherical 

 cavity with a cap cut off from the upper pole, and with a central 

 mucron arising from the proximal pole as a projection into the 

 cavity ; the sucker is surrounded by a crown of a variable 

 number of petals formed of hyaline sarcocyte covered over 



Fig. 17. 



Fig. 18. 



Fig. 16. — Stomatophora bulbifera Bh. & Set. (After Bhatia and Setna.) 

 Fig. 17. — Stomatophora coronata (Hesse). (After Bhatia.) 

 Fig. 18. — Stomatophora diadema Hesse. (After Bhatia.) 



by epicyte marked by striations. Gametocysts generally 

 spherical or shghtly elhpsoidal. Sporocysts navicular, but 

 their ends are draAvn out and truncated, presenting a button- 

 like flattening, sometimes sticking end to end to form chains. 



