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Show 94 MR. GARROD ON THE VISCERAL ANATOMY [Jan. 21, pads are shaped like prominent blunted triangles, with their apices directed forwards; they are 3 | inches deep behind, where they are lost on the fauces, and they are~about 9 inches long. The epithelium covering them is nearly smooth, and is very thick. Fig. 1. Tongue of C. sumatrensis (superior surface). p, soft palate, embracing the root of the tongue; epiy, epiglottis. The tongue is elongate, and in shape much like that of the Ruminants, being thin from above downwards in front, and deep behind, with a somewhat sudden transition from one to the other. From the apex to the posterior of the circumvallate papillae is 15 inches, and from the epiglottis to the same papilla? is 2f inches. In the middle of the anterior thin portion the breadth is 2f inches, and in the middle of the posterior moiety it is 4\ inches. There are many circumvallate papillae, 33 on one side and 26 on the other, forming two clusters separated by a smooth median longitudinal line. Each cluster is triangular in shape ; and the two acute-angled triangles they form lie side by side and have their apices directed backwards. The individual papillae which go to form them |