AT JAVA. 1751- M3 



Lmn. vel Filix indica polypodia facie. Mentz. 

 pugill. tab. penultima. 



Crinum Afiaticum Linn. Tulipa Javana* 

 Rumph. t. v. page 240. t. 105. 



The fpatha has two leaves: the flowers 

 form a knob at the top of the ftalk, and have 

 an agreeable fmell : the corolla is monopeta- 

 lous : the tube is cylindrical, and very long : 

 the limbus is fexfid, with long, linear, reflect- 

 ed lacinia : thtjlamina and theflylus are very 

 long, and alfo reflected : the filaments are in- 

 ferted in the mouth of the tube : the Jiylus is 

 longer than the filaments, but does not reach 

 fo high, becaufe it flands much lower : the 

 leaves are fword-like and broad. It grows in 

 the fandy fea-fhore. It was brought to Sweden 

 perfectly alive. 



Coccus nuclfera (Palma Indica major, Rumph, 

 t. i. p. 1.) called Calapa in the Ja-van language, 

 is a very high, but not very thick palm-tree, 

 with a rough bark, and a item which is un^ 

 divided up to the crown. On the bark grows 

 a white flour-like mofs. The cocoa-nuts, 

 which hung at the top, looked like cabbages, 

 and were fomewhat triangular : the exterior 

 (hell of the nut is yellow when it begins to 



ripen, 



