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Fiji and, so far as can be ascertained, has not previously been recorded lor tlio 

 Fijian Islands, probably being mistaken for the cultivated species, C. bipinnatus, 

 from which it is easily distinguished by the longer and more seabrid slender beak 

 which bears two slender, spreading, retrorsely seabrid awns. It is a native 

 of the West Indies naturalised and widely distributed in the Philippines (E. D. 

 Merrill, Fl. Manila, 1912. p. 478) where some forms, chiefly with yellow flowers, 

 are cultivated. The ray llowers are of a pink colour, otherwise the foliage and 

 achenes are remarkably like (!. sulphureus Cavanilles, especially the form culti- 

 vated under the trade name "Klondyke Cosmos"'; the latter flowers quite freely 

 in our Sydney Gardens, but the pink flowering 6'. caudatus has not yet flowered 

 successfully out of doors, as it requires a much longer season. 



Mr. Fletcher showed half a pod, 4 inches long, with the seeds (two) at- 

 tached, and detached seeds, of the Coral Tree, Erythrina indica Lam., which he 

 had recently found on the footpath, underneath the overhanging boughs of a tree 

 in a garden at Hunter's Hill. Inspection of the tree showed five small bunches 

 of similar pods still attached to branches. The trees are common in gardens, but 

 this was the first time he had seen a fruit-bearing example. The species is in- 

 digenous in East India and the Archipelago, in the islands off the north coast 

 of Australia, and in Queensland, but not in New South Wales. Notes on the 

 pollination of this species, of its non-fruiting in Illawarra, but of its reported 

 fruiting in the Northern River districts, at Mulgoa, and in Queensland, are given 

 by Mr. A. G. Hamilton, in These Proceedings, 191(), p. 26, or in two of his pa])ers 

 there referred to. 



Mr. A. R. McCulloch, with the permission of the Director of the Aus- 

 tralian Museum, exhibited a young example of the Frost Fish, Lepidopus caudatus, 

 which was trawled recently off Botany Bay in about sixty fathoms. This is the 

 first of the species to be recognised from New South Wales, and though only 

 about eight inches long, differs in no important characters from an adult specimen 

 from New Zealand. 



