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shore in the afternoon and saw some branches of the big- Lager- 

 stroemia tree blossom ; they grew too high for me. In a swampy 

 place grew the Lycopodium cernum -, it was very high and had 

 some filicibus, but I have not been able yet to find out their 

 fructification. There were also some kinds of Sictamims. 



July 2. — I went again on shore and caug'ht some Papiliones. 

 I saw a shrub which had three leaves ; the blossoms grew in 

 a spica about one finger long, there were two fruits from each 

 blossom; they were oblong, puffed up and as big as a pea. 



5. — I spent this day in Captain Light's company, and we 

 could dare to penetrate deeper into the wood, because we had 

 many people with us who were armed with guns. 



The first new discovery which I made w^as a small shrub, 

 which grew like a little tree with only a few^ branches at the 

 upper end; it might have been two yards high. The little 

 stem and the branches were covered with a black, grey bark, 

 and they were strewn here and there with orange-yellow 

 blossoms, which had the shape and size of the Primula ; they 

 grew on a small peduncolo squamuloso, only about half an 

 inch long. I could not make any description of it as yet. 

 because the blossoms were all male ones; the female blossoms 

 which I found were not perfect. The capsulas were tricoco 

 and so resembled the Fatrophis. 



We went right across the island, which was covered with 

 a dense forest, consisting of many very high trees ; the ground 

 was strewn over with their fruits and we g'athered some of 

 them. 1 found a kind of palm growing in great abundance 

 on the other side of the shore ; the stems w^ere high and strong 

 and resemble the Borasso. Most of the fruits had already 

 fallen off. Those fruits which had still their fleshy parts were 

 oval, and had the size of a pigeon's eg^. The skin of the fruit 

 was smooth and blue. The fleshy part brown, sharp and stringent 

 in taste, and as thick as the back of a knife. The nut was 

 less oval. 



9. — We had had rain and storm during some days. I went 

 out in the afternoon to examine the polyps more minutely than 

 I had hitherto done. At this occasion I found some Actimi, 

 which had been left behind in some hollows of the shore as the 

 water fell. Their arms were stretched out, and they measured 

 more than one foot in dian^eter. The -arms were fco closely 



