3So OSBECK'S VOYAGE. 



rows, which are at half a yard's diftance from 

 each other. 



The Indigo plant (Ind/gofera tinclorid) y by 

 the Chincfe called Tong~am, or Va, is annually 

 fown in high places, and is in flower almoft at 

 the fame time with the Cotton, 



Am ar a nt ii us triflis, or the In fey of the 

 Chincfe, likewife grew here. I have been 

 told, that its leaves are ufed inftead of Calc. 



Sol a mum diphyllum likewife, but very 

 fparingly. 



Sugar cane (Saccbarum ojficinarimi), the 

 Chincfe name of which is Kee-a, was planted 

 in rows between the hills. The plants were 

 tied together, to prevent their bending to the 

 ground. They were above a fathom long, 

 but I could neither at that time nor afterwards 

 difcover its flowers. China therefore is not 

 the place whence it originally came from, 

 which mull be a far warmer climate. 



Rice (Oiyza Satha 1 ) is by the Chincfe 

 called Waa while it is yet in the ground, but 



1 From this account we may judge of the poffibility of 

 fowing rice in Germany with advantage. 



Wo-ko.h 



