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grow. I took two to try them, but left them 

 behind during my voyage. Such plants ought 

 to be chofen as are of a proper growth be- 

 tween two joints, fuitable to the fafhionable 

 length of canes as they are then worn : but 

 fuch are fcarce. I do not know that any one 

 before has given an account of the Indian 

 canes while they are growing. 



After we had got a good way in this foreft, 

 Which is reckoned fo dangerous on account of 

 tigers and other beads of prey, my honefl 

 carpenter, having tried feveral forts of wood, 

 at lad met with a long naked ftem, which he 

 felled. The timber of the tree was of a fine 

 yellow colour, at leaft while it was newly cut. 

 I looked for the parts of fructification in this 

 felled tree ; but thefe not appearing, I coulcj 

 not afcertain it. On its bark grew, 



Hypnum Javanenfe, 



Lichen pulverulentus viridis et alius > and 



Afplenium Nidus ; this formed a for: of cup 

 in the angles between the branches, in which 

 the birds made their nefts. 



Calamus Rotang (yarietas) is a little (lender 



tret without branches or twigs, winding about 



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