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fauces has followed the internal use of the flower-stalk followed by a 

 temporary cedenia of the mucous membrane of the uvula and pharynx. 

 In Dr. Sakharam's and Dr. Yinayak Gridha's practice the tongue was 

 noted to have become rapidly swollen, a phenomenon not unknown 

 in the poisonous symptoms following the ingestion of the leaves of 

 the English Cuckoo-pint, a congener of the Bombay Shewla. The 

 curried Shewla, when not acrid, or when the acridity is " just passable," 

 or faint, is by no means an unattractive or unpalatable table delicacy, 

 but 5^ou can never know when the throat or the tongue may not 

 havfc to pay the penalty of even a careful or moderate indulgence in 

 a delicious but treacherous curry. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE D. 



From the left of the reader to the right. 

 (1) Spadix exposed; spathe drawn down over the upper part of 

 the scape. (2) Bulb, roots, and rootlets; two membranous scales 

 seen on either side of the dark-mottled petiole (cut across) ; these 

 membranous scales were originally round the scape which falls 

 before the petiole appears. (3) Boat-shaped spathe, exposing spadix. 

 (4) Leaf on petiole; tripartitely decompoimd. 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW TOAD FROM TRAVANCORE. 

 By G. a. Boulenger. 



Bufo fergusomi. 



Crown with weak bony ridges, viz, canthal, pra-supra and 

 postorbital, supratympanic, and parietal, the latter directed obliquely 

 inwards; snout short, obtuse ; interorbital space broader than upper 

 eyelid ; tympanum very distinct, close to the eye and about three- 

 fifths its diameter. First finger not extending beyond second ; toes 

 hardly half -webbed ; no enlarged subarticular tubercles ; metatarsal 

 tubercles feeble; no tarsal fold. Tarso-metatarsal articulation 

 reaching tympanum. Upper surfaces entirely covered with small 

 spinose warts; parotoids scarcely prominent, as long as broad, half 



