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TESE ME SL) & 
Bitelia de Belyique (X5 un 1, p. xd on ‘the assumption that it 
ited 
was the same specie. Consequently it has since been c by many 
writers as_a synonym UNS M further investigation aah Crépin 
restored it (Bull. Soc. Roy. B fon Ang 5 p. 189). to. specific rank in 
1886. Botanically there is not mu separate.. R. multiflora, R, 
Lucie, and R. w urdia though E habit of the latter is extremely 
ifterent. 
Another point has arisen in connection with the figure in the 
Botanical Magazine. In a footnote, it stated that Rosa Lucie (but 
inferentially KR. wiehuraiana), “must have been introduced into 
England at an earlier period, for there is a good specimen of it jn the- 
Kew Ate sane received from Canon Ellacombe in 18 The 
specimen in question is neither R. Lucie nor R. wichuraiana, but 
R. MR ë, though it bore the first name in gardens until the error- 
was discovered. 
West Indian Frog at te ree following account is reprinted from: 
Nature, for October 31 (p. 13) :— 
A short time ago! er Watson, the eret Curator of Kew 
Gardens, informed me that he had noticed. for. several: years, in some of 
the hot- -houses, specimens of a small frog, which, hiding away during 
the day among the pots and orchid- TU enlivened the « quiet evenings 
with their shrill whistling notes. | Suspecting that this frog must be a 
foreign importation, I asked the Director a allow some otf the specimens 
to be v dia and some odia uv T. indus the Rien peo -— 
k oL. Vi ncent, Dominica, Barb dos, &c., and possibly in 
tena "Mr. Watson sae that he parerii it first some ten 
years ago, that he lost sight of it for some time, but tres ii reappeared 
about four or five years ago. - Taking into EEA PR on few fac 
with which Me are acquainted as to - repr reduction a this frog, it 
seems most probable that several specimens of sexes were, on more 
than one ocension accidentally introduced in à Wardian n cases. 
However that may be, it is evident that the frogs have freely propa- 
gated ithe their introduction. At present they are most numerous in 
the propagating houses, in e. the temperature ranges: between 80 
1 ) degrees, sinki winter at times to nearly 60 
ipanying Mr. Watson one riim I heard from several points the 
call of the frogs, which somewhat resembled the piping of a E 
bird; and, guided by the sound, I — soon the pleasure of seeing o: 
of them clinging to the side of a glass 
There is nothing extraordinary in c: accidental importation of ue 
viduals of a tropical species of frog into Europe, but it is an interesting: 
SkBerienee that the specum should have. permanently established itself. 
This is. owing, in the first place, to the favourable conditions under 
which it pei itself rm and secondly, io the peculiar mode of its 
propagation 
Hylodes mar tinicensis, and probably the majority of its congeners, 
does not spawn in water, but deposits from 15 to 30 ova on leaves in 
damp places. . After a fortnight the. young frogs are ai hadan in a perfect 
form, having passed through the metamorphosis within the egg, thus. 
