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sent to the ship in a boat, had been carried away by the storm 

 and everybody deemed him lost. 



14. — I went out to botanize ; the monandria (Gingers) 

 began to bloom on account of the rain which we had had. The 

 Mussaenda had some sort of fringe at the blossom, and so they 

 seemed to belong to the class of blossoms, which Burman has 

 drawn in his " Thesauruss Teylanicus," but in reality these fringes 

 are only a projecting Sacinia of the corolla, which has been 

 caused to grow by the continual wet weather. I had the pleasure 

 of seeing man_y specimens of Papilio priami seeking the honey 

 out of this beautiful bright red blossom. They were later than 

 all the others, as Hector, Helenus and many other kinds had 

 already visited these blossoms. 



' I found some very rare chrysalis on the shrubs, which I 

 could not compare to any other kinds, and which made me hope 

 for some fine PapUios in the future. 



15. — The weather continued to be showery, but I tried to find 

 some object of interest. I obtained to-day a somewhat damaged 

 specimen of Papilio priami and many other kinds, but as the 

 blossoms of the Mussenda grew very high up and this was the 

 only tree in blossom I had to content myself with having seen 

 these beautiful Papilios, A Chinese told me that in Pegu no real 

 silver ovin is used. The silver is smelted together into big pieces, 

 and smaller pieces are cut off according to the present necessity. 

 The value of the silver is taxed according to the finer or coarser 

 crystalline figures, which form as the silver gets cold. 



16. — I obtained some plants unknown to me. I described 

 two kinds of Coniorta, as I succeeded in finding both their frints 

 and pericarp. They grew frequently in such places which are at 

 times flooded by the sea. What is peculiar in the blossoms, I 

 mention in my description. One of these plants, which had thin 

 threadlike twigs, I found climbing among the bushes specially on 

 a very thorny shrub, and as I searched carefully for the pericarp. 

 I found a fruit which was three cornered pointed and smooth and 

 I first thought it to be the fallicles of this contorta ; but what 

 struck me as peculiar was that no milk came out as I broke them. 

 The smell which they exhaled was a strong smell of orange. 

 In this manner I discovered the tree which Rumph describes in 

 the 2nd volume of his " Herbarium Amboinense," and calls 

 Simorelli ; he has given a drawing of the same on the Tab : 32, 



