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I afterwards saw many of these trees but did not find a single 

 blossom ; therefore this kind remained unknown to me. 



17. — We had again rain all through the day, and I had 

 news, that my boy was still alive, and that he and his companions 

 had lived on fruits and leaves in the island of PuUu Panjang, 

 where tney had been for 5 days. 



18. — I went out to get some insects. I found several, but 

 most of them escaped to the top of the high trees. 



19. — I described a new peculiar Pentandria. In the after- 

 noon, after it had rained a little, 1 found the biggest Phalena just 

 crept out of the chrysalis. 



20. — 1 described two E2ndendra,s^nd found some insects ; the 

 weather continued to be showery. 



21. — I went out again to search for insects, but as I was 

 lucky enough to find a new Pteris and the Acrostichum Digitatum, 

 I stuck to botany. I found moreover a Pentandria with creeping 

 stalks and with white, funnel-shaped blossoms, which I described. 

 Its leaves resemble those of the Htjdrocharis Morsus-ranae or the 

 Cochlearia, Psycliotria. 



22. — I took the road, leading to Cockreu, which was very 

 muddy and often intersected by rivulets. I found a large Scirpus 

 a Laurns with sky-blue blossoms, which at times had seven and 

 at other times eight stamens ; generally two or three of these 

 stamens were connate in each blossom. In a very dark wood, 

 often traversed by the rhinoceros, I found on their dung a 

 special kind of Boletus Stipitatus. The roots consisted of a bulb ; 

 it Avas club-shaped, irregular, covered with a black skin on the 

 outside and inside it was quite white, rather hard, and a thick as the 

 point of the little finger. The stalks were about eight inches 

 long, smooth, bending, stiff as thick as a straw, black, brown, 

 and white underneath the hat. The pilens was umbrella- 

 shaped, round, and had a small hole at the top. It sends out a 

 sort of white dust. I found Clerodeudron fiamma Sylo. Maximum 

 under a Sagestrocmia, with perfect blossoms. The first time, I 

 saw this plant in Kara Nicobar, and afterwards near Cockreu. 

 The Polygate, whide I have often seen in India, the one with the 

 yellow blossoms gTew here frequently in the meadows, but the 

 rainy weather had spoilt it. 



23. — 1 went again to the place in the wood which is often 

 flooded by the sea and found several Epidendra, two of which 



