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Roman Catholics, would not approach. It was the grave of some 

 Moorish Saint, who was said to have stood here with one foot, 

 while he placed the other on a cape which lies at some distance 

 towards the north-west. It is strange that the Roman Catholic 

 Christians have more fear of certain places than the Malays, who 

 in spite of all the errors and superstitions went to this Mahometan 

 grave without fear. 



Coriandrum arbor eum. 



A Happea. 



A very beautiful climbing plant resembling the Cassiis. 

 without fruits and blossoms. 



The wonderful plant, the large root of which resembles a 

 cat in shape ; vide fig ura in Rumph., Tom G., pag. 120., Tab. 

 55, F. 2. 



Also the Niclun germinans of Rumph; the former had no 

 blossoms, but many mnior Bulbi, which I broke off and took to 

 Madras quite fresh still, and they continued to be so till the ead 

 of the follwing year. 



The second kind I have already described in Junk Ceylon; 

 it belongs to the 4th class of Mr. v. Linn, has Flor; vuperi, 

 Corolla Hijpocrateprisormes alba, hardly bigger than Oldeul. 

 UmluUata, The fruit is an oblong', smooth, orange-coloured 

 berry, having double the size of a grain of wheat. Two oblong 

 seeds, pointed at the ends, lie in the juice m very little fleshy 

 substance. I have moreover described them in detail. They 

 eesm to me to belong to a new family. 



Vid. Rumph; Amboin. P. vi., pag. 120., Tab. 55, Fig. 1. 



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