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narrow strips, which have been soaked and boiled for a long- time. 

 The boiled hide is about one finger thick. I obtained a piece of 

 raw hide on this occasion. The rhinoceros are said to visit this 

 island from time to time. 



In the afternoon I described a Decandria which has beautiful 

 yellow blossoms and a peculiar kind of capsule. There are three 

 star-shaped capsules, flat outside and convex inside, growing to- 

 gether in the shape of a pyramid. The number of stamens varies 

 from nine to eleven, but generally they have ten. As it blooms 

 in the rainy season, one finds several Luxurirendes. 



I also described a peculiar kind of Epidendi^wn, which had 

 only a few leaves growing on the ovary ; there are two on each 

 ovary ; they have very short stalks and stand in a horizontal 

 position. The blossoms are boat-shaped, growing on a thin tube 

 of three quarters of an inch long, which has some small compressed 

 fragile sheaths instead of a cahx. The lower petal is the largest, 

 and encloses all the others. At the obtuse ends two pointed lobes 

 project a little ; between them are two erect lancet-shaped 

 pointed small lobes as high as the two others; they form the 

 lower obtuse end and enclose the truncate nectary; the other end 

 rises a little higher, is smaller, a little puffed up, or hollow and 

 round. The end itself is round. At this end a fourth lobe grows 

 which is covered a little by the larger ones ; it descends with a 

 bend, is club-shaped, and reaches with its wider end over the end 

 of the truncate body, covers it, and is here stiffer, thicker and 

 of an orange colour. It is moreover convex on the outside and 

 therefore concave inside. The whole blossom consists of a thin 

 milky white Corolla, and has much resemblance to an Impatiens 

 noli me tang ere not quite open, and is very much like it in size as 

 well. In most of the Epidendra it is impossible to consider their 

 blossoms to have several petals and surely they form more than 

 one class. I have made a more minute description of it among 

 my Epidendra under the name of Epidendrum nudum. 



13. — I went to the ship to look after some of my shells and 

 corals, and arrived there towards evening. 



14-15. — I went to the big Pullu Salang, where I only found 

 about a dozen of Kreuz-Ostern. On a Cordia Sehastena I found a 

 splendid large Papilio of the genus Danais. It is white, the ends 

 of the upper wings are of a splendid orange yellow ; the under 

 wings were white and had black edges ; they aie speckled at the 



