92 VOYAGE iliOM INDIA TO SIAM AND MALACCA 



and Guillendia Bondus. The real purpose which had brought me 

 there was to find the different species of Aries in blossom, but I 

 was not so lucky as to find any. Between the stones of the garden 

 grew Urtica Altenata; the Capsicum with blue black stalks, leaves, 

 and fruits, and some beautiful blossoms grew in abundance near 

 the gate of the garden. The arrangement of the garden did not 

 show any thing remarkable, although there was much opportunity 

 to build beautiful terraces. A little hill was surrounded by a 

 wall three feet high, and on this hill in a hedge grew the Institia 

 Coccmea^ which looked splendid with their profusion of beautiful 

 orange-coloured blossoms. There were some Tuberoses here with 

 seeds. The tree Boa Cr^oss Rumphii grew here and had blossoms, 

 but I only described the male ones. 



5. — I went to the garden of an old Chinese woman, who 

 kept several kinds of aromatic plants, which she had brought here 

 from her former large garden after her husband's death. Among 

 them was the Cardamom, a wild kind of Zinziher, two other kinds 

 of the Scyiaminis, one of them leaving lost all its blossoms, the 

 fruits having the shape of a pear, and resembling a bell. The 

 other kind resembled the young Bamboo in its growth, but the 

 leaves were very aromatic. People told me that the blossoms 

 grow near the root, but they are only transplanted from the root 

 to form new plants. Acmella grew wild near a Zugher bush ; the 

 PolypodiuM Phyllitis grew abundantly on an old Sago tree ; people 

 took the leaves and put them between their clothes which were 

 agreeably scented in this manner. In a Malay garden I found, 

 in a wood of Mangastang trees, a very beautiful specimen of 

 Eindendron^ which had an ear at the point, and resembled the 

 Lycopadio very much. I obtained the male and female blossoms 

 of the Strecca Ripa. This tree is very useful on account of its 

 wood, which is very hard and resembles that of the black palms. 

 It is cut into very long pieces, which are two inches wide and 

 three-quarters of an inch thick, and these pieces are sent to the 

 coasts specially, where they are called Riper and ^^^re much used 

 for building roofs. 



The collection'! obtained to day "gave me plenty of occupa- 

 tion during the next day, because I dried, examined, and des- 

 cribed the different specimens. ,...,. 



7. — The rain, which had fallen in the night and continued 

 in the morning, prevented me from "using the early hours; it 



