182 VOYAGE FROM INDIA TO SIAM AND MALACCA. 



had been treated merely because he had asked for the permission 

 to g-o to Bang-kok, etc. 



The chief products are : Rice, pepper, elephant tusks, lign 

 aloes, g-utta, cardomums, very good building' wood, rhinoceros 

 horns, white, yellow and red sandal wood and ebony, and how 

 much more would be produced under a better g-overnment. There 

 is an abundance of domestic animals that thrive here. No kind 

 of manufactory exists here, and no foreign trade is allowed ; every- 

 thing must be brought to Bangkok, and all the products of the 

 land must be sent thither. 



On my journey I went out on shore several times to increase 

 my Siamese Chloris. I found the large Malestonia with blossoms 

 and fruits, but the place was very dangerous, because many tracks 

 of elephants led down to the river. Kt another place I found 

 the small, very pretty balm tree, which I described. I found male 

 and female blossoms on a tree in separate panicles. Therefore 

 it must be a Jlonoecia hexandria trigijnia. The panicles in this 

 species were compact. The calyx was a one-leaved urceole 

 and in the female blossoms it was more distinctly and unevenly 

 serrated ; the fruit I have not seen as yet, but it is said to fall 

 often to the ground here as well as in Junk Zeylon, and is eaten. 

 I made my description as detailed as possible. 



I saw an Avicennia with lancet-shaped leaves growing in 

 the stream where the water began to be salt ; it was a high tree. 



At the mouth of the river I found a small Monoccolwn po'y- 

 phennim in the mud, and on the high projecting point of land I 

 found some new plants at the foot of a mountain, which will 

 surely keep the remembrance of this place fresh in my mind. 

 The sun was setting at the horizon and I had still a quarter of a mile 

 of sea to cross before reaching the ship. I arrived there happily 

 at seven o'clock and anchors were still weighed the same even- 

 ing-, and we started for the sea. 



29. — We had little wind. The mountains of Chantibuhn 

 still excited the wish in me to be able to pay them a long^er visit. 



31. — We often saw the purple blue helix, many cliones, and 

 the Medusa porphivta swimming' past; also a brov/n sea-snake, 

 which I tried to catch. 



Februari/ 2-3. — In these days we faced the island of PuUu 

 Wai. A feeble and contrary wind forced us to remain in this 

 neighbourhood. 



