TIY K. H. BEXXETT, ESQ. 351 



spears, &c., S:c. During tlie liot summer moiitlis auotlier and 

 totally different looking substance exudes from tbe trunks and 

 branches of some of these trees in large quantities. This substance 

 when freshly exuding from the tree resembles a thick froth, either 

 pure white and resembling sno\\% or of a pink or rose colour. 

 These exudations assume various forms and become solidified by 

 exposure to a certain extent to the air. Sometimes they are in 

 lumps as large as a man's hand, and sometimes in the form of 

 stalactites over a foot long, as large as an ordinary candle, and 

 gradually taj)ering to a point. This substance is of a highly 

 saccharine nature, with a peculiar sickly sweetness ; it melts in 

 the mouth like ordinar}^ sugar ; the natives arc very fond of it, 

 and either eat it, or by dissolving it in water make a kind of drink. 



COXTRIBUTIOX TO A KXOWLEDaE OY THE ElSHES OF ISEW 



GrUIXEA. — XO. II. 



Er A7illia:m Macleat, F.L.S., etc. 

 Family BERYCID.E. 



121. IIOLOCEXTEUM TIOLACETJir, Blcck. 



Ounth., Cat. 1, p. 43.— Bleek, Atl. Ichth. Trachicht. pi. 1, fig. 2, 

 *'Tara'' of the natives. 



122. HoLOCEXTRu:\i spixiferu:m, Forsk. 



G-unth., Cat. 1, p. 39.— Bleek., Atl. Ichth., Trachicht. pi. 3, fig. 3. 

 — Holoceiitnim leo, Cuv. & Yal. — Less. Yoy. Coq. — Yoy. Astrol. 

 pi. 14, f. 3. 



"Tara " of the natives. 



123. ITOLOCEXTRUM CArDIMACULATUil, Eilpp. 



Gunth., Cat. 1, p. 41.— Bleek., Atl. Ichth. Trachicht., pi. 2, fig. 3, 

 — Holocentnim spiniferum, Cuv. & Yal. — Rilpp., Atlas, taf. 23, f. 1. 

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