64 VOYAGE FEOM IXDIA TO SIAM AXD MALACCA. 



two also grew together. This was the case in most of the blos- 

 soms ; among teu blossoms which I opened, only one had nine 

 stamina. They have no receptable for honey ; it must be a Ramun- 

 cidiis, and grew frequently in pools where the mud was deep. 



30. — We went to our ship, which lay in the harbour, but 

 we had much trouble to reach it, on account of the many trees 

 floating in the water, cast there by recent storms ; however we 

 airived at midday. 



31. — I went to the larger Pullu Salang', which is only 

 separated from the smaller island by a narrow passage, it is 

 twice as large as the smaller one, and lies paralell with the land, 

 stretching from Xorth East to South west. It was here that I 

 first found some Krcuz Ostern and some ostrea isognomum. I 

 intended to collect some more of them, and had the luck to find 

 about eighteen of the first kind. Higher up on the shore, higher 

 than the sea-water would rise, I often found that plant which I 

 had seen between Bangkok and Chanthebuhn, and which at that 

 time already I believed to be a kind of palm. 1 am even more 

 certain on that point now, because under the fleshy skin, which 

 is very smooth and shiny on the surface and of the most perfect 

 sky-blue colour, the kernel is horny and therefore resembles the 

 nuts of the different kinds of palms very much. There were two 

 species here ; one of them was the species I have already described 

 before. The second kind had a much longer racine about a span 

 lorg. The fruits grew sometimes three or four together in a 

 bell-shaped calix; each of the fruits was oblong, smooth and not 

 of tlie same intense sky-blue colour as the first kind. I searched 

 very dihgently for their blossoms, but till now I have not been 

 so lucky as to find any. 



On the mountain ridge I found a kind of fern, which had both 

 very large pinnatified leaves and simply pinnate ones ; and they 

 were the largest fern leaves that I have ever seen. The fruit- 

 bearing leaves were somewhat smaller and divided in character- 

 istic lines. The Papiliones here were of the same kind as those 

 which always live in dark shady forests; they were of a brown 

 colour and beautifully speckled ; they were of an unusual size,. 

 The high forests here consisted mostly of very prickly leaves, as 

 Eottan and other kinds of palms ; these prickles tear both skin 

 and dress if one wishes to pass through them Cjuickly, and so my 

 servants and I had to desist from penetrating any further. 



