Miscellaneous. 191 
Note on a new uere Be abc Ot from Madagascar. 
By D E. Gray, F.R 
Dark olive ; chin and be it: a broad sn from the nostrils 
middle of the back. Tail reproduced, grey. Lower labial shields 
9.1.5, with two small ones near the angle of the mouth, and some 
hexagonal plates below them. Viri of body and head 4l inches. 
Hab. Madagascar. British Museum 
HoMAs MEEHA 
Mr. Charles Darwin's interesting idein on cross fertiliza- 
tion have opened a new world for o riginal discovery. The list of 
Cross Fertilization and the Law of cii in Euphorbia. 
By Tuo 
wind will waft the pollen to the stigmas ; ; but I have not been 
able to notice any leaving these flowers in this way; for as soon 
as the anther-cells burst the whole stamen falls from its filament- 
like pedicel and either drops at once on the pistils of other flowers 
or scatters its pollen-grains by the force of the fall. 
is Ewphorbia also furnishes another contribution to the theory 
of sex which I have advanced. The plan on which the male and 
female or Whenever the common msl a (below 
the scarlet involucre) is weak, a pistil never appears in that 
of w which seem strong also do not have them; but 
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partially formed in embryo, and before the sex had been finally 
determined, the female flower, being primordially the stronger, has 
the power of absorbing the males or their partially formed elements 
into its system. It is certainly remarkable that in both these instances 
the number of male flowers should decrease in proportion to 
existence or vigour of the central female one. 
The male and female flowers of Euphorbia fulgens are formed 
