Plate VII. — Plasmodium falciparum, the pernicious malaria parasite. 

 — From Muir and Ritchie. 



A, Two small ring-shaped amcebulse within the corpuscles; B t a "crescent" or 

 gamont, showing the envelope of the red corpuscle. Figs. C~F illustrate the 

 changes in form undergone by the gamont s outside the body ; Fig. JF shows a 

 male gamont that has undergone ' exflagellation," or the formation of micro- 

 gametes, which are seen attached to it. (x looo.) 



