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produced to 5 mm. long. Both young and old fruits were ex- 

 hibited for comparison.— /S'^efte^'a Stephensoni Benth., La Perouse 

 (A. A. Hamilton; January, 1916), showing aphylly due to 

 environment. The specimens exhibited were taken from a shrub 

 about 1 m. high, which had shed its leaves to within some 

 15 cm. of the tips of the flowering branches. The shrub was 

 growing on flat, rocky country, subject to direct insolation, and 

 it also suffei'ed from the effects of bad drainase. 



Mr. E. Cheel exhibited fresh flowering specimens, together 

 with coloured drawings of Callisiemon, raised from seed received 

 from a European firm of seedsmen, under the name of C. lanceo- 

 latus var. lilacina. From the same batch of seedlings, the plants 

 show two distinct shades of colour, (a) Filaments deep carmine- 

 violet to reddish-violet or pure mauve, anthers light reddish- 

 brown. (6) Filaments reddish-purple, anthers a shade darker 

 than the filaments. The general habit of the plants, and the 

 shading of the colours seem to indicate that they are intermediate 

 forms between C. rngulostis DC, (C coccineus F.v.M.) and C. 

 lanceolatus DC, both of which are frequently cultivated in 

 Europe, the former having prawn-reddish filaments, and yellowish 

 anthers, and the latter reddish-purple filaments and anthers. C . 

 rtigulosus is common in the interior of this State, and South 

 Australia, but rare in the Sydney district [vide Proc. Linn. Soc. 

 N.S. Wales 1903, xxviii., p.884); and C. lanceolatus is very com- 

 mon along the coastal districts of this State. He showed also a 

 branch from another plant of the same batch of seedlings, having 

 solitary flowers in the axils of the leaves, an extreme departure 

 from the normal, dense, cylindrical spike usually seen in this 

 genus. 



Mr. North, with the sanction of the Curator of the Australian 

 Museum, exhibited four specimens of the Regent Bower-bird 

 (Sericulus melinus), showing the various stages of the young 

 male, from youth to maturity. The young male, as is so fre- 

 quently the case in birds, closely resembles the adult female. 

 One received in the flesh from the Council of the Royal Zoologi- 

 cal Society of New South Wales on the 30th May, 1916, which 

 the Director, Mr. A. S. Le Souef reported as received from 



