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here, having pericarps like those of the Comhretum, and oblong- 

 rigid leaves, striped by the veins which traversed them. 

 They were mostly gnawed off by worms, but I did neither 

 find truly ripe seed nor any blossom. I wanted to penetrate 

 deeper inland, but a very high kind of grass, intertwined with 

 convolvulus, made it impossible to advance any more. 



In the afternoon I went to a little island, inhabited by 

 a Chinese family, called Cohrien. At the borders rice had 

 been planted, and in the middle Convolvolus Batatas was be- 

 ing cultivated ; the soil consisted of a black mud mixed 

 with swampy clay. 



At five o'clock I went again ashore near the former 

 Eoman Catholic Church, which stands before the town at the 

 left, and has been totally destroyed by the Burmese; only a 

 few walls are still standing. It was called St. Paul. I collected 

 Mimosa higemina and Ipomcea lonrjiflora. 



In the evening I went again ashore near the temple Wath 

 Tshan-Panon Isogu, situated on the smaller southern arm of 

 the stream on the right hand side, and on the other side 

 is the old town. I could only make a hasty investigation, 

 because it was already late, but I found that here too, as in 

 the other temple, the idols had been spoiled. 



7. — Early this morning I went out on a tour of discovery. 

 Behind the big temple of idols is another temples, which is 

 separated from the former by a swamp, measuring 200 feet in 

 width; this is the big'gest in Siam. My botanical discoveries 

 consisted of some splendid kinds of grasses, which had not withered 

 yet. Ipomcea grandijfora; the v/hole blossom is about span 

 long, and the outer edge has a diam-eter of the hand. The 

 ruined temple, which was built upon a little hill, was surrounded 

 by trees and shrubs. Among these shrubs I found Ehamnus 

 Jineatus, Justicia Adhatoda, Plumbago Zeylonica, Barleria Prionotis ; 

 these grew among the big shooting Ovieda pinnatifolia, which 

 I found here for the first time with fruits. These fruits consist 

 of smooth pods, as wide as a finger, three lines thick and two 

 feet long. There were only few big old trees of this kind here, 

 all the rest were younger plants. There were Mimosa higemina, 

 a Mimosa called Oiel Haut by the Dutch, and some others. Tho 

 most remarkable climbing plant was Ipomcea hona-nox; I got 



