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RAMPHASTIDA 



Head of Ar.;ari. (Gould.) 



Total length about 10 to 17 



round the even anil Urti len 1 colour. Total length al 

 inches : bill 4, wing 54, tail 6], tarsi 1} inches. (Gould.) 

 It is a native of Brazil, probably near the Amazon. 



i. (Gould.) 



P. fluricimrtiu. Male. A broad band of black advanced from the 

 nostril* aloof the whole of the culmcn, and forma a narrow belt down 

 UM side* of the upper mandible at it* bane ; the elevated boaal 

 margin of the bill in fellow ; the nides of the upper mandible beautiful 

 onoip-yellow, fading into yellowish-white towarda the tip; under 

 mandible wholly black with a yellow baaal ridge ; bead, neck, and 

 cbrat black ; whole of the upper nurface, except the rump, which w 

 carUt. dark oUt*fnM ; breaat marked with two broad bandi of 

 black, the upper wporalcd from the throat by an intenrening ipace 

 of yellow dabbed with red ; a aimilar but broader apace aeparatea the 

 two baoda of bbck, the lower of which ia bounded by acarlet, 

 adrancing u far aa the thigh*, which are brownish-olive ; under the 

 tail-corerU light yellow ; naked apace round the eye*, Urai, and feet, 

 dark lead-colour. 



The female diflen from the male iu having the ear-coverU brown 



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and a narrow belt of scarlet bordering the black of the throat Total 

 length 20 inches : bUl tfc wings 64, tail 8J inchea. (Gould.) It U a 

 native of Brazil 





iu jflut it-in-titf. 

 I'ppcr flffurc, female ; lower, male. (Gould.) 



lUMPHO'STOMA. [CHOCODII.ID.B.] 



1UMPION. [CAMPANULA.] 



RAMSON, the common name of the Allimn wti'num, a species of 

 ' larlic found wild in many parts of Great Britain, and formerly culti- 

 vated in gardena; but ita UBJ is superseded by the Allium tatintm, a 

 native of Sicily, which ia the Garlic now in cultivation. [ AI.I.IDM.] 



RAMTILLA, a genua of Plants belonging to the natural order 

 Componta and the sub-tribe J/elianlhttr, so called from the Indian 

 name Kam-Tilla, by which the oil of ita seed ii designated. The 

 plant ia remarkable for the number of names by which it has been 

 described by botanists. Of these we need only mention the Vcrbetina 

 aliva of Roxburgh, and the Kamtilla oteifera of De Candolle. 

 Caasini bad however previously formed it into a new genus, and, 

 under the name of fiuizolia, " dedicated it to the celebrated historian, 

 then minister of public instruction." This name, being prior to that 

 of Ramtilla by a year or two, is now retained aa that of the genus. 

 Ue Candolle, having obtained specimens and seeds from various 

 countries, discovered that the Indian plant waa identical with ono 

 from Abyssinia, which has been mentioned by Bruce under the name 

 of I'olymnia frundoia. The fact is interesting in a plant cultivated in 

 t uth countries for the same purposes, and forming one of the links 

 which indicate the connection which existed in early times between 

 India and Upper Egypt. This plant is cultivated in different parts of 

 India, from October to March, in fields, for the sake of the seed, from 

 which an oil is expressed, and used aa a substitute for that of the 

 .Swam urn, which in considered the beat kind. It is used both in 

 dressing food and as a lamp oil. 



HANA. [AMPHIBIA.] 



RANDIA (named after Isaac Rand, M.D., once a demonstrator of 

 botany at the Chelsea Botanic Gardens), a genus of Plant* belonging 

 to the natural order Au'/< 



]{. dumclorum, the Bush-Randia, is a thorny branching small shrub 

 or tree, with oval leaves, rather blunt, cuneate at the base, and smooth. 

 The flowers are very aweet-acented, sessile, solitary, mostly terminal ; 

 the calyx baa oblong lobes, rather shorter than the villous corolla. 

 The fruit is smooth, yellow, resembling a small crab-apple, firm and 

 fleshy. The seeds are oval, numerous, and lying in mucus. The fruit 

 when bruited and thrown into water intoxicates and even kills fish 



