NATURAL HISTORY NOTES, 1638 
species of lizard whatever is in any sense poisonous, while very 
few possess teeth sufficiently developed to inflict a wound. Spiders 
are, like snakes, great enemies of lizards, the usual proceeding being 
to catch the latter asleep and swiftly weave a web round its mouth, 
after which the spider bites the lizard on the lip causing speedy 
death. 
Readers interested in natura] history might furnish interesting 
information by keeping this animal in confinement. 
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SINGAPORE LOBSTER. 
This crustacean has not hitherto been figured or described, and, 
though occasionally found in the Singapore markets, is by no 
means common. The illustration is exactly one-third of the na- 
tural size. 
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FLOWERING BANANA. 
This is the most brilliantly flowering of the MWusacee, and is 
known to botanists as the musa coccinea, or “ pisang sole” of the 
Malays. It has a triangular rose-coloured fruit, which is not 
eatable. Some fine examples may be seen in the public gardens, 
Singapore, near the orchid house, and it is rather surprising that so 
handsome and easily grown a plant has not found more favour 
amongst residents. 
The flower is figured in “ Choice Flowers, Fruits, and Leaves of 
Java” by Madame B. Hoona van Noorten, but the plate herewith 
was printed prior to the publication of that work, and was, at the 
time, the only coloured plate of the plant which had appeared. 
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