SECOND PART OF Vol. II. 



Third Continuation of my Journey to Siam. 



MALACCA. 



Sept. 28. — The previous days I had busied myself in classifying- 

 the plants and in making- a description of them. There was one 

 tree of medium size ; it had branches which were almost straight, 

 and they had no leaves except at the end of the small twigs,, 

 branching off from the larger branches. There were many 

 leaves growing close together, having no stalks. It belonged to 

 Fohjaddphia pentcKjijuia. I did not obtain any ripe fruits, al- 

 though the tree grew here very commonly. The blossoms 

 resembled those of the C'ljstis, were pretty large and rose-coloured. 

 There w^as another peculiar tree ; it was about the high of four 

 men and only as thick as the arm ; it has no branches, and the stem 

 was covered with a bark with many scars. The corolla showed 

 that it belonged to the Umhelliferoe. The seed is round, ball- 

 shaped, crowned, and as big as a nut. I placed it among the 

 Coriander family, although this will hardly prove correct. 



There were some others which I have either mentioned in 

 my description or in the definition ; some others I could not de- 

 cide upon and deferred their classification till some other time. 

 The big Filix does not seem to be anything else but a Pteris 

 aquilina, it was sometimes more than the height of a man. 



The kind of stone was granite, intermixed with some white 

 and black mica, and some felspar, there was no trace of any other 

 kinds to be seen wherever I went. A little more inland I found 

 some sand of a quartz-like nature. 



29. — To day I obtained at last good ripe seed from the plant 

 of the Gamblers. The pericarp remains closed at both ends, and 

 only splits in the middle at both sides to let the seed out. The 

 seed itself is very small, flat, oblong and winged at both ends, 

 and so it seems to be a Cinchona. A third kind I have as yet 

 undecided, althoug'h the blossoms have in all details the same 

 character, even as far as the leaves are concerned ; only they are 



