The plant grows all over Jndia as a common creeping troublesome weed, and is especially abundant during the rains. It belongs to the natural order Nyctagineae. The roots are stout and fuciform and have a bitter and nauseous taste. From the root numerous stems 2 to 3 feet long, slender, and covered with mir"'? Vi^irc ^re eiven off T*y? stem is often viscid, glabrous; the leaves are thick, arrang...

Gaucher's disease is a metabolic disorder characterized by the accumulation of excessive quantities of glucocerebroside in the reticuloendothelial system. Brady et al. have demonstrated that individuals with this disease have deficient amounts of glucocerebrosidase, one of the enzymes required for complete degradation of the lipid of the red cell membrane.' The characteristic cell of Gaucher's ...

Anredera cordifolia (Ten.) Steenis, commonly known as the Madeira-vine belongs to the small family Basellaceae is reported as an invasive weed in the gardens and forests of the north of Iran (Fig. 1). Characteristic features of the said plants are as follows: Plant perennial, evergreen, climbing vine or liana that grows from fleshy rhizomes. Stems slender, climbing, up to 3–6 m in height in a s...

A new genus of Tabanidae mimetic of flies is described: Muscotabanus new genus, Muscotabanus rafaeli new species, based on 12 females collected in the state of Amazonas, Brazil. It is presented a discussion for separating the new genus from Diachlorini species which resemblance with sarcophagids flies. It is characterised by striped thorax, banded abdomen, long slender palpus subequal antenna l...

A characteristic type of reticular cell, the dense reticular cell is described and illustrated by electron microscopy in the thy mus and lymph nodes of mice. This cell is identified by its high nuclear and cytoplasmic density and by the presence of many ribosomes in its long, slender processes extending between lym phocytes (or thymocytes). The preservation of these processes requires special f...

The paper at hand deals with the modeling of turbulence effects on the dynamics of a long slender elastic fiber. Independent of the choice of the drag model, a general aerodynamic force concept is derived on the basis of the velocity field for the randomly fluctuating component of the flow. Its construction as a centered differentiable Gaussian field complies thereby with the requirements of th...

Seladonia (Pachyceble) henanensis sp. n., is described from Henan Province, the eastern-central part of China. This species is separated from its allied species by a combination of the following morphological characters: head broad in female, inner hind tibial spur of female with 7-8 slender teeth, T1 basolaterally with appressed hair tuft in both sexes, and genitalia with long and large lower ...