126 VOYAGE FROM INDIA TO SIAM AND MALACCA. 



Of the other trees some were unknown to me, others were 

 Bliizophora. A squirrel was shot, whereupon the whole wood 

 was filled with the screaming- of the monkej's. The back, sides, 

 and tail of this Sciurus were dark grey, and towards the surface 

 of the hair yellosv ; the mouth and the round ears were black, the 

 stomach rust-coloured brown ; it was twice as large as the 

 Sciurus Palmar wn. I searched particularly for grasses, but 

 there were no other species to be found in perfection than 

 Af/rostis cruciata Eleusina indica at half a man's height and Scirjms 

 trigynus ; the other kinds had only leaves, which were sharp to 

 the touch and very tall. JRMzophora candelaria had three 

 filaments, which were connate in a puffed-up membranaceous 

 tube, and also as many anthers. 



The crocodiles swam in front of our boat ; they often made 

 a dreadful noise, but the people said we had nothing to fear from 

 them here, they are only dangerous further inland. 



9, — Early this morning I left the ship in a boat; the ship had 

 come up to the mouth of the river. Unfavourable wind and the 

 current forced the people who were rowing the boat to try and 

 reach the bank on our left, which we were passing quite closely. 

 The bank was very low, and as we had high-tide it stood under 

 water, but in spite of that it was closely overgrown with different 

 kinds of trees and especially at first I often came across the kind 

 of palm tree that I described at the Malay coast, which seemed 

 to be a very useful tree for the natives of this country, because 

 all the houses are covered with it. I did not see any blossoms or 

 fruits upon them, but if one has seen them once, they are easily 

 recognised. A great number of trees grew in the river and bent 

 their branches down to the water ; they were of a new kind. 

 The}^ have a long irregular crown with pendent branches and the 

 leaves are very much like those of the Jamholifera* but the blos- 

 soms and fruits are very different. The tree belongs to the 

 Pohjandria or thirteenth class of Lmn^us. The stamens project 

 above the young fruit, on a coloured projecting' edge, and grow 

 on the corolla ; they are very numerous, about two in lies in 

 Isngth, quite white ; the style is long'er still and the stigma is oval, 

 small, furrowed, pierced, sticky, perfect, and twice as broad as 

 the compressed pistil is thick. The corolla is peculiarly slender 

 as long as the calyx and of a beautiful red colour. The pistil 



* Eugenia jamhos. 



