MLAM. — fiAMnin. 



of their supposed warmth, when u>ed as st tiffin;? for 

 uiaf trasses and pillowy, and their agreeable fragrance. 

 The demand is either on the decline, or the supply 

 has increased beyond it ; f<u* the cultivator ikhv gets 

 almul ;J Sj». drs. the pic ul, instead *of from 9 to 13 



dollars, as formerly. 



The native country of thh plant lias not been, I 

 believe, ascertained. The Malays suppose, that it 

 vus introduced from Sumatra. The value of an 

 orlon#*s produce now being from 25 toQO dollars, the 

 profit, after deducting labur, is not r< in uncrating*. 



A Bankok Siamese describes this plant as being 

 cultivated at Siam, He states, that the people there 

 prepare an article used in perfumery, internally as a 

 medicine, and as a cure tar tooth-ac he, from a mix- 

 ture nf inlaui and the leaves of a plant called by the 

 Malays, dattn rhapa, or wild sagi ; these are infused 

 into water and the whole is distilled by means of an 

 apparatus, consist iutr of three pots, placed one above 

 the other. The product is collected from the surface 

 of the upper one, on which, it is condensed in shape 

 of a white, concrete substauce. It sells high. Wild 

 sage abounds in Penang, 



GAMB1R 



Is described in Marsden's Dictionary, as a shrubby 

 plant, from the leaves of which, an extract called 

 Oat ah Gambit* is procured, by decoction and form- 

 ed in little halls or cakes, in order to its being eaten 

 with betel. Its culture is deseril>ed iu the Data* ia 

 Transactions, m hich do not happen to hi* at hand, so 

 I have had recourse to the Chinese for information. 

 This shrub was, at one period, cultivated with success 

 at Penang ami oilier places to the eastward, hut us 

 Java was the principal market for t he produce, and 

 the Dutch had levied a ditty of 12 Java rupees ]P 

 picul on it, the cultivation at the former island did 



