58 OSBECK'S VOYAGE. 



long, narrow, and furround the Jiigma : the 

 germen is egg-fhaped, pentagonal, comprefled, 

 and below the flower : the Jiylus cylindrical, 

 of the length of the filaments, bent fo as to 

 incline through the incifions of the corolla ;'■ 

 the Jiigma is fcyphiform, and hairy : the nut 

 is almoft round, and of the fize of a pea: the 

 tree has wrinkled and hanging branches, and 

 grows on the fea-fhore. The leaves are in- 

 verted-oval, mucronated, fmooth, without in- 

 cifions, almoft without nerves, petiolated : the 

 fialks of the leaves are of equal thicknefs all 

 the way : the flowers are white, and axillar. 



Crinum Afiatlcum with its glorious white 

 flowers, enriched the fandy ihore. I brought 

 both the plant itfelf in a flower pot, and the 

 bulbs or roots of it preferved in fand, to 



Szvcden. 



Corypba umbraculifera was likewife grow- 

 ing here. Of this the great round fans are 

 made, with which the mufquitoes or gnats are 

 expelled in China. 



Cord'ia Myxa flowered on the fiiore : the 

 leaves are oval, petiolated, without incifions, 

 alternate : the tree is very ramofe : the branches 



are 



