70 VOYAGE PROM I^DIA TO SIAM AKl) KALACCA. 



back with a kind of dirty yellow. 



I have already often oteeived that the wings of the Papilios 

 la^ e the j-an.e colour as that of the blossoms on which they live. 

 A few years ago I saw a Teiy laige Papilio sucking the honey 

 of the Jiisiiiia Ediolivm ; it had the same sea-green colour as the 

 blossoms of the aboTe-mentioned plant. In this ir stance a great 

 part of the wings had the same colour as the Ccrdia, which is of 

 a beautiful oiange colour, and this circumstance made me search 

 the next day for some more specimens, but I only caught six. 



16. — I went quite early to Pullu Jambo lo botanize and 

 search for insects. I found a big tree, which had funnel-shaped 

 blossoms, w^hich were divided into five lobes at the mouth and 

 w^ere superior. It resembles the family of the Gardenias. The 

 fruit is oblong, five-cornered, w-ith irregularly large sides, but 

 underneath a thin fleshy skin is a hard nutshell, which contains a 

 large amount of small rather fleshy seeds, disposed like eggs in 

 a nest; this I have also often ob^-erved to be the case in many 

 kinds of w^ild growing Gardenias on the Coromandel coast. 



In the afternoon I searched for molluscs, corals, and the like. 

 I ha^e already said before that among- other corals, there are 

 many fleshy corals on these shores. AYhen the tide is very low 

 they lie on the stones in a very limp condition, as the fleshy parts 

 of the head lie in the anatomic balls, but as soon as the water 

 rises again they revive and regain their habitual tone. I happened 

 to touch one of these fleshy corals when the tide was high; it 

 had a bioad base, the edge was sharply bent and had many inter- 

 sections; it w^as very fleshy and flesh-coloured; I must have 

 touched it too hard and it broke. At the same moment innumer- 

 able animals came out of the cells and pores. These animals 

 resembled Neries exactly; the}" also had the broad stripe under- 

 neath and a narrow^er one along the back, and ring-shaped stripes 

 near the mouth. The mouth was surrounded by eight feathered 

 arms, which w^ere white in colour, while the rest of the body was 

 cofl'ee-brown. Under a half inch microscope they seemed to be 

 about one inch long. 



This chance discovery made me repeat this experiment and 

 I tried to vary the manner of breaking the corals. I succeeded 

 best when the water began to cover the coral. Those which 

 had been covered by the sea-water and had dried out several 

 times were rather entangled, but in the one case, which I men- 



