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following morning he found it was changed into gold, and 
broke off a bit and took it off to sell. On returning, he found © 
the bit he had broken off had grown again, and this continued 
till he became a very rich man. On his death the flower dis- 
appeared, and the family became comparatively poor again. 
_The Pandan Wangi very rarely flowers (indeed I have never 
seen the flowers of it), and the male flowers are white and 
sweet-scented, like those of any other Pandanus. 
Recently a Javanese who wasin the Botanic gardens ona 
moonlight evening perceived on the stem of a wild fig-tree 
(Ficus Miquelii) at aheight of about ten feet from the ground, a 
red flower about as big as a large marigold. Not knowing the 
peculiarity of the Gold flower, he went to call a companion to 
look at it, when it immediately vanished, nor has it reappeared. 
It seems that the gold flower objects to a crowd, and will only 
be visible to certain fortunate persons, and this cooly, by calling 
@ companion to see it and not immediately seizing the flower, has 
missed his opportunity of becoming a wealthy man. It is hard- 
ly necessary to say that the flowers of the fig are enclosed in 
the fig itself, which is mistaken for the fruit by the natives, who 
imagine that fig-trees have no flowers at all but only fruits. 
And thus, as, like the Pandan, it has aormally no flowers, it is 
just the kind of tree you would expect to find gold flowers on. 
IEE Ihe Ja 
Remarks on the 
Rhinoceros Hornbill (Buceros Rhinoceros), 
and some other species mentioned in Mr. Ridley’s Paper on 
the Birds of the Botanical Gardens. 
Writing of the Rhinoceros Hornbill in his interesting paper 
on Singapore Birds, Mr. Ridley says, ‘The beak and casque 
are naturally white, but during life are coloured orange and 
red. This is done by the bird itself, which every morning rubs 
its beak azyainst a gland beneath its tail, whence exudes an 
orange-red liquid which colours the beak.” 
The gland (uropygial) is above and not below the tail ; 
below is of course a lapsus calamt. In a letter to Mr. Ridley 
I told him that I thought the red colour on the bill, thoug 
