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bladders g-row as Avell on the leal stalks of the plants as on the 

 stalks of other plants quite closely together, so that the rain can 

 tlow into them and fill them. I have first seen this plant in 

 Sallang-or, bnt they had neither blossoms nor fruits, and those I 

 saw there had only the one root in the ground, the branches were 

 ixjurished by means of small bladders. Perhaps these are the 

 little bladders filled with water which Burman refers to in his 

 travelling description. 



These plants here had both blossoms and seed. In some 

 places I saw some seed on a rock, which the wMnd « arried off 

 towards raidda}^ I climbed these rocks and succeeded in getting' 

 some ripe seed in a follicule; my opinion is that this plant to- 

 gether with two other form a new family, because the Inbus of 

 their corolla is ball-shaped and puffed up, and the limbus is erect 

 and does not widen ; moreover they have apecuhar kind of Fulcra 

 standing round the Corpus Truncatum, which is not to be found 

 in any kind of Contoitis; furthermore they have a Sli'iiiia pro/in ii- 

 uhrm in Disco ojn'cis corpoiis inincti. I have dedicated this plant 

 to Professor Friis, because 1 think he has the greatest right to 

 any new discovered specimen of this class, on account of his 

 little book, which treats the Contortis so much in detail. 



A new kind of Lauro, which I had seen in Junk Ceylon, 

 I found here growing between the cliffs, only the stalks were 

 not of the same bright orange colour. At low tide I found again 

 the featheiy Fucum, w^hich I had already discovered near Ceylon. 

 Ulva paro/rt's, Corailina ojiuntia as well as parasitica and hubbosa, 

 stood here in the muddy soil but not in such abundance as in 

 Junk Ceylon. I also found here a Spongia bobbossa^ erecta 

 orbicu ato Bknia inargine acutv, riridis. It is hardly thicker than 

 the back of a knife and the lajgesthave hardly an inch in diameter: 

 larely they consist of two such leaflets. I often found them near 

 Junk Ceylon formerly. 



The town was at a good distaiK-e ; the weatl;er was changeable, 

 because the rainy season had begun, and all these circumstances, 

 combined with the fear of lobbers made me return, although we 

 had weapons with us. The robbeis, who come fiom one of 

 the neighbouring Malay islands, killed and robbed some Chinese 

 a short time ago. 



We ariived in town at 8 o'clock. 



On our way we peseed a place which the crew, who wqw 



