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shaped and spreading-, growing- half down the stalk. It had had 

 blossoms, but I could now only find some oblong petals pointed 

 at both ends. The Viscus opimtia grew here frec[uently on the 

 Memicijlon capitellatum and among them climbed Cassjtha. 



10 — During the last days I was busy drying and packing 

 my things, which was very difficult on account of the frequent 

 rain ; the corals, which I wanted to dry, gave me much trouble. 



11 — I went out again to find the blossoms of the Nepenthes^ 

 because for a long I have had doubts whether they are herma- 

 phrodite. I often came across their male blossom, but the female 

 ones were too ripe. On the Chinese graves I found a special 

 kind of Pferis and gilongifolia, Biirm. FL Sei/L, Tab. and Pteris 

 triphfllcL There ought to be careful researches made in order to 

 find out whether they are not hybrids among themselves. 



The Echites Candata began to bloom ; it is of a peculiar 

 construction. The long ends of the blossoms, which are of the size 

 of the Nigelkistrum hang down as much as three inches and are 

 dark blood-red in colour. It is a kind of shrub which gTOws on 

 other trees and spreads very much. The pericarps are the biggest 

 of any kind of contorta which I have hitherto seen.* 



12 — I sent all my things on board, and tried to overcome my 

 disappointment about the failure of the journey, and my anxiety 

 about the many troubles which I might yet. have to overcome 

 on account of the war. I went on a botanical excursion to a plain 

 situated between the western suburb of Malacca and the leper 

 hospital. I frequently found Schoenus Cruciatus, Agrestis MatreUa^ 

 Stemodia and three species of Utricularias which are very common 

 here, viz: the nivea, the aurea, and the small pruple-coloured 

 one. Among them I found a beautiful Didynamist of the second 

 order of this class, and of the third sub-division. The blossoms 

 are bell-shaped and are cut into four equal round lobes at the end, 

 before these lobes divide they grow crossways and are pressed 

 together, the outside is yellow ; inside, underneath the lobes it is 

 bearded with curly white fibre, and the colour is here of an even 

 more vivid hue than on the outside, and there are some fine orange- 

 coloured stripes. The stamen are shorter than the corolla and 

 stands close to the stylum ; the anthers are white, compressed and 

 heart-shaped. 



* Strophanthus. 



End of Pakt 2. 



