90 : VOYAGE from: INDIA to SIAM and MALACCA. 



16. — I went with the Governour v. Sch. to the country house 

 of one of the richest merchants in Malacca. On my way I saw 

 the wild Cardam : and also Apluda Mutica. In a swamp grew a 

 Mimosa folovatis, and in the ditches stood Atriculoriaj Sckoenus 

 aureus, etc. 



The two miles of this journey had made me so weak that I 

 could neither sit nor lie down. Towards midday I recovered a 

 little. The master of the estate told me that the women make 

 everlasting flowers out of the marrow of the Sccevola. The young 

 leaves are eaten by the Malays as remedy against indigestion, they 

 have a very bitter taste. 



20. — AH these days I had to keep indoors and to take 

 medcines. The lameness of my right hand and especially of the 

 fingers hindered me very much in any examination of plants or 

 in writing. I described a peculiar kind of Buceros, and also 

 stuffed it. But I am not sure whether it is a new species, as I 

 have not got the first volume of Tine's system. 



28. — During all these days I was busy writing letters to 

 Dr. Solander, to whom I sent a short description of my journey; 

 also to Professor Frlis, and other good friends in Copenhagen. 

 I sent all these letters, both those for Denmark and for England, 

 with a ship passing here on its way to China. 



30. — I made a minute description of the Amono Zinziber, 

 Amono Cardamom, and another kind of Monandrist. It is astoni- 

 shing how different all the existing description of Monandrist are 

 from the reality, and that one has not observed the long cylindric 

 Nectar ior. 



Sept. 1. — I changed my quarters; in the former one there 

 was too much noise, because many people went in and out. 



In the afternoon I went to the garden of a Chinese captain 

 living here. I found many flower pots and flat iron vessels con- 

 taining many Epidendron ensi/oiium, which lately had ceased 

 blossoming ; three pots were covered with the Oscal.is corniculata, 

 and the Hydrocoty!e Americana, which were agreeable to the eye 

 on account of their star-shaped shiny leaves ; they were also being 

 culti sated on account of their medical virtues ; the Malays call 

 them Pangagar-China. There was a beautiful kind of dark red 

 rose on very short and slender stems ; they were planted both in 

 pots and at the borders; the description can be found in my 

 Enchiridic. Chrysanthem indie, grew in pots, and had remarkably 



