RHINOSPORIDIUM. 



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Dimensions. — Ripe sporangia 250-300 /a in diameter ; spores 

 7-1 OjU. in diameter. 



Remarks. — The organism has been found in polypoid growths 

 in nose, naso-pharynx, uvula, conjunctiva, lacrymal sac, 

 ear, and penis of man. 



Tirumurti (1914) recorded fifteen cases from man, aflfecting 

 various parts of the body, in the Madras Presidency. 



A 





Fig. 1S2. — Rhinosporidium seeberi (Wernicke). A, section of stage 

 with about 500 nuclei, showing the outer chitinous and 

 inner cellulose layer of the envelope and the position 

 of the future pore ; B, section of the stage in which the 

 contents of the sporangium have divided into about 

 4,000 nucleated cells ; C, discharge of mature spores ; 

 D, section of spore showing nucleus with karyosome, 

 and vacuolated cytoplasm. (After Ashworth.) 



2b2 



