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side, where the shore was low. Near ilie shoie was a pond 

 which had been surrounded by tufaceoiis stone. 



The seashore here was overgrown with Vite and AeginHlo 

 Scorala, Fuikjii Tlovt inalah : Ilihiso lih'ac; Brome/ia Arbor ; i'7. Zetfl. 

 some kinds of tigs : Guettorda, etc. The more sai.dy parts were 

 covered with Ap/uda Cystiis j\Ialaccensis: Xyrisan nov. Sj^ec. IJedy- 

 saru/n Viscosiiiii and a new kind of Scirj/is. In more shady parts 

 grew the Dracena eusi/oHd ; ilm I^vir en a had fruits. 



Eriocauhn quinque angtilare g'rew two feet liig-h. Here 

 grew also Nepentos distil iatoria, several Scirpi, amongst them 

 one resembling the Corymhvsa. but the stalks and leaves climb- 

 ing up the trees differed too much from the Corymbosa. The 

 plant is a wonderful kind of Oontorta, which has been amply 

 provided by nature that it should not easily die. The real root 

 i- in the ground, but when the stalk has climbed a few feet, it 

 clings to the tree by means of kidney-shaped leaf supports 

 (Blatsctuitzen) which cover some librous roots. The leaf sup- 

 ports themselves are concave, lleshy. and some are larger than 

 a Spanish Dollar and though they grow alternate, they stand so 

 close together that the edge of the one covers that of the next. 

 This row of leaf supports extends sometimes for more than one 

 foot. After this the thread-like round stalks divide into many 

 long climbing and twisting branches, which at times hang down 

 or cling to other plants in their reach, from where they continue 

 1o climb. Other branche- a^cend and twist round the branches 

 of the tiees. But in order tu give them proper strength, nature 

 has provided them with other means. Instead of the afore-men- 

 tioned leaf supports (Knlcra) the stalk in some, parts has many 

 small bladders growing close together; they are heart-shaped 

 and of a somewhat ieatheiy substauf e. Their surface is. >moo(li 

 or sometimes has small scats and yellow ; inside they are blood - 

 red, a little compressed, have sharp edges, hollow inside and 

 pufted up so that the smaller ones can hold three ounce.^ uf 

 water, tlie larger ones even more. At the base there is a large 

 hole, larger than a quill is thick : the edges of this hole are com- 

 pressed round and smooth, they slope inward like a funnel, but 

 the end of this funnel widens, and bends slightly. Behitid this 

 funnel-shaped edge grow some of the principal roots, which send 

 out many minor roots, these again subdividing into numerous 

 h air-Jike fibres and forming- quite a bundle of fibre. These 



