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nests had been built upon it. Fucus grew on the rocks 

 like the Coctis in an angular sort of fashion. Underneath the 

 water its colour is dark green, but in the air it is yellow and 

 looks as if enamelled. I often saw this kind of Fucus in the 

 Straits of Ceylon at no great depth and only one foot high ; but 

 here it had been fished up from a depth of thirty fathoms by 

 means of a fishing line. There were all broken on account of 

 the rough handling they had undergone. 



30. — I went out to botanize and obtained a quantity of new 

 plants, which I must describe during the next few days. There 

 was specially a great number of the family of the Phijllanthi and 

 if one wanted to classify them properly, one would have to 

 distinguish several families. They are in this country what the 

 numerous Salices are in the colder parts of Europe. 



Nov. 1. — I examined the family of the PhijUanthi more 

 minutely and found the specimens, which in the main points 

 were like most of the Pliijllantld. Their styles however were 

 erect and cylindrical ly grown together, they were club-shaped 

 and at the end divided into three parts, each of which was sub- 

 divided in its turn. I also found a simple shrub, only one and 

 half feet high; it had large eg-g'-shaped leaves and large hanging 

 bell-shaped blossoms, and their fruit was a long four-sided pod ; 

 this shrub evidently is one of the Gynandria, and in remem- 

 brance of my friend, Professor Brannicke, I called the plant after 

 him. 



4. — I went to Pringi, and found there some blossoms of the 

 Rambutang; those I found were all six stamened and if the rainy 

 season had not done too much damage, I could have classified 

 them also on this occasion. There were also many fruits on the 

 tree in various stages of ripeness. The Dutch call them Serjiants 

 or Hunde Kloten, because two fruits always grow out of one 

 blossom. 



7. — I went out specially to see the tree from which the 

 Lign aloes is gathered. They showed me four pretty big trees, 

 but I searched in vain for some blossoms. These trees grew 

 really in a Malay garden hedge. I left the detailed description 

 until such time as I could perhaps obtain some blossoms. 



10. — I found a special kind of fig tree, which distinctly 

 showed the parts of fructification. The male ones consisted only 

 of a single tube and a stamen, which projected a little with the 



