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the fruit hanging at the junction of the two ovoids. The fruit 

 was not found growing. 



For use in their canoes, an excellent strong rope, apparently 

 of some bark-fibre, is made by the natives ; also a most perfect 

 small twine, of which large sein-like fishing-nets are made, and 

 also small hand-nets, of which latter a specimen is forwarded. 

 The fine tw T ine is probably made of plantain-fibre. No use ap- 

 pears to be made by the natives of the fibre of the cocoa-nut 

 bush. A hard brown fruit, as big as a goose's egg, is used for 

 cementing the seams of canoes.^ The fruit is broken open for the 

 purpose, in order to obtain the kernel, which, I think, is applied 

 raw ; but in what manner, I did not find out. The fruit is for- 

 warded. The natives do not use bright Crotons or Dracsenas 

 for decoration of their persons, as do the Papuans of Humboldt 

 Bay. I saw only one man with green leaves fastened to his 

 shoulders, and one with a flower of Hibiscus rosa sinensis stuck 

 in his hair. A leaf is often worn doubled over the cone of 

 hair, which is made to project from the back of the head by tying 

 the usual loose mop of hair round at its base close to the back of 

 the head. The leaf thus worn looks like a sort of bonnet. A 

 Draccena leaf is often used. 



About the houses in the villages bright red Dracaenas are 

 commonly planted as ornaments, representing the flower-garden 

 in its most primitive stage. I saw no bright Amaranihus flowers, 

 though the Humboldt-Bay natives had plenty of them. 



Of clearings of land for the cultivation of taro or sugar-cane 



in quantity, such as are to be seen at the Aru Islands and 

 Fiji, and such as there are probably at Humboldt Bay, no traces 



were seen. 



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Supplement to the [Enumeration of Fungi of Ceylon. By the Rev. 

 M. J. Bebkeliy, F.L.S., and C. E. Bbo^me, Esq., F.L.S. 



(Bead December 16, 1875.) 



[Plate II.] 



On a revision of the large collections from Ceylon sent by Mr. 

 Thwaites, a few unrecorded species have occurred, and two very 

 curious new genera, of both of which we are enabled to give 

 faithful sketches, though it is very desirable that a larger supply 

 of specimens should be received, especially of Endocalyx, which, 

 with the formerly described Almsia, is somewhat anomalous 

 amongst the Myxogastres. The early stage of both is quite 



