g KARAKORAM STONES, OR SYRINGOSPHiERID/E. 17 
surrounded by enof ^° dy ^ an S en tially show a vast number of small circular radial systems, 
iS° st Part S e en cut nc mte f adial tuhe-structures (Plate III, Fig. 5). The tubes are for the 
ue surrounding. n ' 7°^ and tllc radiaL are very small, few in number, and are wide apart. 
slu >°ts to the radial s * tube ® consists of those of large caliber, often with minute off- 
varicose, rapidly P 7 ™’ and usuall y vei 7 varied ia shape and size on account of their gyrose, 
I })ll( iuity of their C °^f e ’ ° f their iuosculatiTli ? and bifurcating, and of the necessary 
1 ev eloped and thin Taey are close and crowded - Both series have the tube-wall 
USU % not much less tl era< ^ al . tUbeS USUaUy inch in diamct er, the others measuring 
b y transmitter! 1; ?? IP mcL ‘ Tlie section £ ives the appearance of a multitude of 
ab es. These ght, the centre of each being most distinct and occupied by the radial 
T “P are * inch acrnl 77 d ° HOt inC1 ’ ease much in their size ^om within outwards, and 
’abbours, and nit I, n 10 mterradial * ubes of one system communicate with those of the 
ei Tadial tubes ° SUrround ing radial series sometimes. The sections of some of the 
mterradial now ? . flask ' slia P ed ou tline, and this arises from the radial tubes or the 
^he sections 1 f ^ g ! via " off very delicate tubes of connection. 
A bttle wav pn df? radiall y present a totally different appearance to those just described. 
P e S(d of tubes R 6 i° W I ' 6 Surfaee a series of nearl y e( l ual parallel systems of tubes is seen ; 
Ur cate, a nd ai 7 ° S ?i y crowde( b and they are close, large, swell out here and there, bend, 
° 0Ver -8traieht t ^ minute offshoots. The other consists of a few wide-apart, narrow, 
1 d f( ) the larger t n J lllc b S iv e °ff tu h es of their own size or a little smaller to each other 
i a'^hudinaiiy or 1 tbe set at their side - The Iar S er set is tIie interradial system, seen, 
,, <a ‘ l ’adi a i system ^ I’ and the smaller hy its side is a radial system. Next comes another 
<l * III, Fig. (•) 1 )0U as broad as the radial one thus included, or perhaps a little broader ; 
( '^b'rradial systmL &eCtl ° n * S examined > c l° se below and at the surface, the large tubes of 
lhe height of tl ! r, Seen “ Hnes ’ with the smaller radial ones parallel with them. 
0 y * s ^ tv inches, and the breadth nearly 3 inches. 
