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what thinner end the doctor mserted in the posterior of the invalid, 

 and then he blew through the other end of the stalk. At this 

 operation the invalid began to scream tremendously, the pains 

 augmented, and he lay moaning for more than a quarter of an 

 hour. At last his bowels acted and half an hour after again 

 accompanied vvith the same groans. I left my obstinate invalid 

 at the request of the priests, recommending him to God's mercy. 



22. — The invalid sent for me twice during- the night, com- 

 plaining that he lost much blood by the rectum both in piles and 

 flowing away. The native doctors gave him some astringent 

 remedies, and so I left him in their charge. 



After service I went to the temple of an idol, which lay in 

 a wood. I could go there in my boat by rowing up a small 

 stream. I found very many new and rare things botanical Canna 

 indica grew here in the swamps, almost the height of two men, 

 it had yellow blossoms. I found one plant here resembling a Rhus ; 

 it was in blossom, but it cannot be the afore-mentioned plant, 

 because its nectary resembled that of our lily of the valley, and 

 the peculiarity was that the stamens were only inserted at the 

 outer side of the nectary. The anthers were situated in the open- 

 ing of then^ nectary and grew together in a ring; they were five 

 in number ; this ring was smaller at the inside and had a reddish 

 colour, and only one style. The fruit is a pear, and is eaten by 

 the people. 



Hedi/saruvi triflorum, and Iledijsariun heferocarpum grew Bhun- 

 dantly in the wood, and amongst them climbed Piper Sirihoa. A 

 new Idnd of Phijllanthus grew here ; it was a shrub and had flat 

 berries of an orange- colour, it stood among the kind which has 

 the white berries and the species of this family, which 

 Mr. Burman wrongly calls Rhainnus vitis-idea. The most peculiar 

 thing I saw here was a kind of grass, the leaves of which were 

 like the first leaves of the Coco tree, with the same ribbed folds ; 

 it was a kind of Panicum and grew very high and abundantly 

 among the Aphida. Ovieda jnxnati-folia had already dropped its 

 leaves, which seldom last much after sunrise when the dew has 

 half dried away. I saw a second species with linear, lancet- 

 shaped leaves. This was only a shrub of about one and a half men's 

 height. There was a species of Dolichos which had pods like 

 those of D. prurieiis, but its blossoms were very small and blue 

 in colour, while the blossoms of the other are big and black-red, 



