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larg-e blossoms. Two BromeJias, the leaves resembling" those of 

 the large Aloe, grew at the entrance of the garden ; one of them 

 had a beautiful wide band along the leaves, which was of a light 

 yellow colour. Iscora Coicinea had orange coloured blossoms 

 on one side and white ones on the other. They v/ere a kind of 

 (missing in M.. S.) A kind of Scitaminis filled two large beds; it 

 it was only cultivated on account of the medical virtues which it 

 is said to possess. The leaves are like those of the Curcuma, the 

 roots were only thin and yellow. The people said it had no 

 blossoms, and that the fruit grew underneath the earth. The 

 common Chinese rose grew here everywhere. 



In beds along the walls grew a stiff kind of grass, which 

 had narrow^ dark green leaves; I was told, that it never had any 

 blossoms, but can easily be transplanted by the roots. 



3. — I obtained the permission to visit the high mountain of 

 the fortress of Malacca. As I went up I saw, as I had already 

 often down in other places, the Polijpodium, which Burmann has 

 drawn in three or four parts in his Fl. Zeyl. This plant under- 

 goes great changes. At first it has single, oblong leaves ; soon 

 they divide on one side, and later on they divide into five or 

 more pointed lobes. The g'reen root is as thick as a quill and 

 creeps along the wall; it has every now and then some rust- 

 coloured thin dry scales on its surface. 



When I had almost reached the summit I saw^, lower dow^n, 

 some Cassialata, Clerodeudr. paniculate among them a kind of 

 fern, which I held to he a, Tricpomenes odinth? 



The real avenue leading up the mountain is lined with two 

 rows of trees, which are all Fterocarpi. On the top of the moun- 

 tain stands the real flag staff of the fortress, near it a massively 

 built, beautiful church, which however is not used any longer 

 because there has been a new one built at the foot of the moun- 

 tain, close to the house of the governor, which is easier accessible 

 than this one. The gravestones of the governors, commanders, 

 and consuls are ornamented with such elaborate coats of arms 

 that one night think those buried here to be members of the 

 Nassan and Hanoverian families, though in reality most of them 

 have been peasants or artisans in Europe, and their only merit 

 was that they served as soldiers under some noble master. 



I was taken to the governor's garden ; the way- thither 

 Tvound through a dense shrutery of C'ovyza halsam, cassia oi icu'atis, 



