(1) The appendages are primitively branched, and although this condition is modified in many species, adults always have at least some biramous appendages.(2) The anteriormost five abdominal appendages are, almost without exception, biramous .(3) An answer lies, he says, in the origin and modification of the ancestral biramous limb.(4) My biramous appendages are quivering, Mr. President.(5) About ten limbs appear to have been present, which may have been biramous .