94 VOYAGE FKOM INDIA TO i^IAM A:SD MALACCA 



9. — 'J'u-day 1 desciiled the ]\lLiiMidiifet lutre in detail, after 

 I had received some better specimens from the garden. They 

 are kept for medical prrposes. It is a pity that most of the 

 Monandrists have no fruits now, so that it is not possible to 

 chassify them coiectly. This kind has of all those 1 have seen 

 the m.ost spreading- Petala, and I was in doubt whether or not to 

 classify it among- those which have the crown divided into four 

 lobes; I have however not done it because they grew together 

 a long- way up like in an Ung-ue ; the others hang directly at the 

 tube and have almost a kind of Unguis. 



10. — I described to-day a new species of the family of 

 Phyllonthos. I have often found them in Siam, but never with 

 such perfect leaves and fructification. The leave- are here used 

 in medicines for children against any bronchial illness, because 

 they have a sweet after-taste. The fruit has the shape of a pear, 

 but only the size of a cheiry, it is snowy white and has no taste, 

 there is just a faint salt or acid flavour. They look very pretty 

 with their blood-red lasting calyx. 



12. — I went this nioming along the southern coast to 

 botani! e and found seveial kinds of plants which I had not seen 

 befoie. I found an Epideiuhum ensifor amongst many hundreds, 

 which had lost their blossoUiS. Ffeiocarp: Dracr. w^as still bloom- 

 ing. 



In the garden of a P^-rUiguese, where I wanted to examine 

 a Sago-tice, I found a great quantity of O.^fea p/cf/ronecf, which 

 plant is often fetched out of the water at low tide just in this 

 month. Tliey are presersed like all the other Osteas and eaten 

 like them; their aninials ine how-ev-er verv small and many of 

 them 'are -required for aire meal. I was t-old •that>one can oi>ly 

 get them at two "peiiods of the year, becarse at all otlier tiu.es 

 they go down to deep parts of the sea. 



After I had pas.-ed many gardens, I found a beautiful 

 Monandrist at the foot of a mounrain. The l.'lossems grew in a 

 Strobilum, which was sessile at the root and which had a some- 

 what spreading edge at the end. It was as long as a hand is 

 wide and half an inch in diameter and the spathes, which were in 

 great number in this Strobilum, and were of different ages, were 

 all -of a beautiful red colour. 



1'he stalks with the leaves were, lil:6 those of liiost of the 

 monandrists, biforia. only the leaves w^ere more ieatherv than 



