822 Marvels of the Universe 
the upright posture by the Frilled Lizard indicates kinship with the iguanodon and other extinct 
giant reptiles, or dinosaurs, of a long-past epoch, he started an idea which every naturalist, possessing 
even a slight acquaintance with anatomy, will recognize as preposterous. He is, however, entitled 
to the credit of having written a very interesting account of these strange lizards. 
The Frilled Lizard is one of those structures which it is so difficult, or rather so impossible, to 
explain on any hypothesis of fortuitous evolution by means of slight and gradual development. 
For what use would an incipient frill be in terrifying enemies ; and if of no use in its early stages, 
why should it have continued to develop until it attained the effective dimensions it now possesses ? 
It appears, indeed, to be a case of “ the whole frill or none.” 
VPGERABEE BREAD 
In those survivals of Paradise known as the South Sea Islands, there grows a tree whose fruit has 
almost the consistency of a newly baked loaf, and it serves the natives as a good substitute for the 
baker’s bread. 
The tree is of only moderate size, and its leaves are large and rough, of a dark green colour, with 
their edges cut into bold, teeth-like divisions. The flowers are simple and individually incon- 
spicuous, but owing to the manner in which they are clustered they are obvious enough. Those 
that bear stamens are crowded on a club-shaped spike ; but the pistillate flowers form round buttons 
much like those of the familiar plane-tree of our city parks and streets. These button-like clusters 
ultimately enlarge until they are as big as melons, the exterior rough, with six-sided knobs, which 
are the remains of the flowers. The interior is filled with a dough-like pulp, produced by the swell- 
ing up of the receptacle which supported the flowers. This constitutes the bread, but, like the 
Photo by} % =a CW. Saville Kent. 
THE FRILLED LIZARD. 
The frill is here admirably displayed. The skin which forms it is supported by cartilaginous ribs very similar to the whale- 
bone ribs of a primitive umbrella. When fully expanded this frill will measure as much as ten inches across 
