150 REMARKS ON MEGAPODIUS BRAZIERI, 



the order, thus showing that, whilst Australia affords the largest 

 species of the Labiate and Composite orders, a little island not 

 far from her coast presents us with one of the most remarkable 

 of the Gesneracece. Professor H. Baillon has recently published 

 a very elegant figure of N. rliahdothamnoides, which will enable 

 the student to recognise the peculiar marks of difference between 

 the new genus and those to which it is nearly allied. The Baron 

 separates it from Conandra, because the corolla is not of a rotate 

 shape, nor has the fifth stamen any anther, whilst the connectives 

 of the anthers do not cohere in a tube exceeding the cells. Prom 

 the New Zealand shrub, JRhabdotkamnus, the plant from Lord 

 Howe's Island is separated, not so much by habit, as by the 

 divisions of the calyx, the straightness of the filaments, the speedy 

 separation of the anthers, and the less regular fissure of the 

 capsule (Frag. VII.). Whilst the singular occurrence of Negria 

 in a remote part of the world affords a problem yet to be worked 

 out in the distribution of species, the plant commends itself by 

 its elegance and beauty to the consideration of Horticulturalists 

 and Florists. 



Remarks on Megapodius Brazieri. 



By J. Brazier, C.M.Z.S., &c, &c. 



I wish to correct an error made by Mr. E. P. Pamsay, F.L.S., 

 in a Paper on the " Birds of the Solomon Islands," published in 

 these Proceedings for 1879, p. 75. He there- states that I had 

 taken Mcgapodius Brenchleyi at the Island of Savo,*' in the Solomon 

 group, and that Dr. Sclater had named it from the egg alone, 

 having never seen the bird. The fact is that H.M.S. Curacoa, 

 which I accompanied as Naturalist, during the expedition to the 

 South Sea Islands, so interestingly described by the late Mr. 

 Brenchley in his " Cruise of the Curacoa," never called at Savo 

 at all, and the Megapodius eggs were not collected there. 



* Known also as Savu, Galera, and Russell Island. 



