The Romance of Natural History, Second Series

by Philip Henry Gosse

[223] Low's Sarawak, 65.

[224] The writer by this term doubtless alludes to the panicles or heads compounded of many individual flowers; for the plant does not belong to the order Compositæ, but to Byttneriaceæ.

[225] Ellis's Madagascar, p. 390.

[226] Ellis's Visits to Madagascar, 57.

[227] Atkinson's Siberia, 472.

[228] Reinwardt.

[229] Tennent's Ceylon, i. 104.

[230] "Affinities of the Stylopites," in Zool., 1792.

[231] Wiegmann's Archiv., 1860, Bericht, p. 169.

[232] Ann. Nat. Hist. for April, 1861.