no VOYAGE FROM INDIA TO SIAM AND MALACCA. 



fatal consequences attached to this illness. 



The rain which fell during- the night was so strong* that 

 it seemed as if we were to have had a general flood. After 

 8 o'clock this morning the weather was fine, but cool ; we scarcely- 

 had sixteen degrees Reaumur. 



15. — I went into the jungle after botanical researches. The 

 swamps were full of water on account of the heavy rainfall 

 yesterday, and although I saw many beautiful blossoms from a 

 distance, I could not reach them. I therefore remained in the 

 mountainous region, and was amply rewarded, as I found many 

 kinds of trees and shrubs and obtained some of their blossoms. 

 Among them was a new Phyllanthus. It is an erect anfstiegend 

 plant, with two stamens and resembling the Chionanthus. I found 

 an Eythroxylon which I had frequently seen in Ceylon, a Hameiia, 

 and a Morinda with four stamens, which resembled the Ragac, as 

 it is partly erect and partly creeping. Moreover I found a new 

 kind of plant with beautiful light green leaves and white blos- 

 soms ; it grew in the wood and belonged to the Polygamia. 

 There were many other plants besides which enriched my Flora 

 Malaccensis. 



16. — After I had classified the plants I found yesterday, I 

 accompanied my Malay servant in the afternoon, who went out 

 shooting and shot for me some flying lizards with a blow pipe 

 a few days ago. At the same time I wanted to see the way in 

 which agriculture was handled in these parts. About a quarter 

 of a mile from the town I saw the first lizards with spread wings 

 high up in a coco tree in a Malay garden. They were of the same 

 colour as the stem of the coco tree. At the first shot, which hit 

 the branches near them, they began to nod their heads, and then 

 they put out a keel of bone — this grows on a skin which is flexible; 

 at both sides of the head there is a shorter thinner rib, (Ribbe in 

 M.S.) to which this skin is fastened. The animals continued to put 

 this bone out repeatedly ; it is lemon-coloured. After a short while 

 they puffed themselves up and at last they flew to the next tree, 

 which was about ten feet distant. The wings consist of a thin skin, 

 which is black-grey, and has round red spots on the upper side; un- 

 derneath it is blue and has some long black spots. This skin is in- 

 tersected by six ribs, which almost reach to the edge, aid both 

 wings put together almost form the shape of a heart. As they nod- 

 ded their heads they uttered a faint squeak, almost like that of the 



