VOYAGE FROM INDIA TO SIAM AND MALACCA. 73 



were divided into five egg-shaped lobes, which were about three 

 lines wide. The 'Colour is a beautiful yellow, with blood-red stripes. 

 The male parts are : a thick stamen, standing- erect (Adelphiaj, 

 and which first divides into three horizontal parts ; at their ends 

 are the anthers, also divided into two parts. The peculiarity of 

 these blossoms is, that in half-grown blossoms the anthers seem 

 to be single and so are only three in number, but when the 

 blossoms have reached their perfection they split and then they 

 form six anthers with very delicate furrows, their colour also 

 being yellow. The female blossoms grow on a high stalk, which 

 grows erect, somewhat compressed, striped and smooth, and 

 has one or two alternate ovate leafiets, and at the end grow one 

 or two, rarely more, female ^blossoms, which are almost sessile. 

 They are distinguished from the male ones by the greater thick- 

 ness of their tube; all the rest of the corolla is like that of the 

 male ones. Favetta, v^hich was just in bloom, grew here also 

 frequently, and some other shurbs unknown to me; most of them 

 seemed to be monandrias, among them the splendid cone of the 

 Amonirn showed to perfection. I have described it among my 

 Monandria, page i). It has a carmine red colour, and is often 

 eaten by the Siamese, who call it Kalch. I observed that the 

 ripe seed, which is oblong, angular and black is often eaten by ani- 

 mals, who open the cone. The Siamese told me that the ele- 

 phants too are very fond of this cone. I saw a peculiar kind of 

 palm-tree, with prickly stem and stalks, which resembled the 

 rotan very much. The leaves were simply pinnate apices un- 

 divided or confluent distichous ; each pinna had a long rhomboi- 

 dalshape, and was rather longer at the base and ended in a 

 narrow point; this last observation, and that they are Sadentite 

 on two sides, distinguish this plant from the kind of palm-tree 

 which I described on my journey from Cockren to Tarnah, which 

 was about the 26th March. Afterwards I saw many of 

 the above described trees, but their stem was quite small, and 

 they had neither blossoms nor fruits. We now reached the 

 opposite shore, and saw many large trees of the already described 

 Uardtuia, the blossoms of which refreshed our invalid with their 

 sweet smell. We turned back to the wood, and after a few 

 steps my captain discovered some beautiful red blossoms, which 

 grew in large quantities upon a very high tree. I soon saw 

 that it belonged to a climbing plant, and my boy, who was 



