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mens both of the flowers and fruit : the former 

 grew in clusters upon erect spikes, with the corolla 

 of a dark red, mixed with yellowish green. They 

 have a handsome appearance, but diffuse so foetid 

 a smell around, as soon to fill a room with the 

 exceedingly disagreeable effluvia. The fruit is 

 kidney-shaped ; the trees were sixty or seventy 

 feet in height, and from eight to ten feet in cir- 

 cumference. 



A piece of sandal wood, of good quality, was 

 brought off to the ship by one of the natives ; he 

 stated that large quantities of it could be pro- 

 cured, as the tree grew abundantly in the moun- 

 tains. He gave it the usual Indian appellation 

 of Chandana* 



In some brackish pools I collected several 

 small living species of the Ceretkium ; and about 

 the banks a great number of a small crab, re- 

 markable from one of the claws being greatly 

 disproportioned to the size of the other parts of 

 the animal, and entirely different in colour. 

 When I first beheld them, I mistook them for 

 small crabs running away with the claws of 

 larger ones. They are difficult to catch, from 



* It was stated to me that sandal wood can be procured 

 at Acheen as well as other parts of the north-east coast, and 

 is sold by the large pecul or bar (which is equal to three 

 peculs) at twenty-four dollars the bar. 



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