VOYAGE FROM INDIA TO SIAM AND MALACCA. 71 



passed throug-h very pleasant parts of the country. We saw 

 many kinds of birds near the water and at the same time many 

 of the above mentioned Gracula. 



From the garden we saw at some little distance the residence 

 of the king*, which is a pretty strong* fortress in a favourable 

 position, but the king* has no garrison in it, and does not need 

 to either, because he is sufficiently protected by the English ; he 

 only has the number of people necessary for his comfort or 

 state. 



The garden was very large and full of useful trees, many 

 Plumkria had been planted along the principal paths, they look- 

 ed very well with their long, striped, and folded leaves. In the 

 garden itself I found a small Pandell, upon which grew a kind of 

 creeper, with very beautiful white blossoms that had a agree- 

 able perfume, it was one of the Contortae.* There were some 

 flowers at the raised ends of the branches, and generally three 

 on one stalk. The calyx had five lancet-shaped expanded 

 concave, smooth membranous leaves, and they grew at the 

 same distance from the floral crown by means of a short stalk. 

 The floral crown was funnel-shaped, the tube had five furrows, 

 was smooth, whitish green and shorter than the calyx; the limb 

 was divided into five parts ; the flaps spread out and grew 

 vertically on the tube, each of these flaps was oblique, lancet 

 shaped, wider than those of the big jessamine. The stamens 

 grew in the furrows of the tube and were quite short; the 

 anthers stood erect, they were linear and divided in two parts at 

 the tips. The style simple, stigma obtuse, pistil oblong angled. 

 There were no capsules bearing fruit to be found. This is 

 always the case if plants have been reared from cuttings or slips, 

 I therefore could not find out what class it belonged to. The 

 broken twigs had a milky juice. 



I also saw a new specimen of grass among the brambles, 

 which looks very much like Phhum. On our way back I was 

 delighted to see some exquisitely fine blossoms of the Nymphea'\ 

 Nelumbas. Amongst others I saw one of a blue colour. Cyperus 

 elatiis was here mostly growing to the height of a man. 



After our return the gentlemen took me to see some of the 

 principal people who print or paint cottons. There are two 

 different kind of people employed in this printing and painting of 



* Apocj^naceoe. f WaUr Lilies. 



