just as ihe oranges bouUi of tlie Yaftg-tszfe-keang, if traii?- 

 pianied lo a place norih of that river, become sour, on account 

 of the difTerenee of soil and climate. On eoqitiring ofihe old 

 people of Batam, they all said, nil kinds of see da if brought 

 hither fVom Cfaifta have their red blossoms turned white, 

 and their white floffere cliaoged into red onea ; which 19 to 

 be ascribed to the strange variation of ihe eoi), and the con^ 

 trarietf of the aensotis. 



THE ff Mh ^ ERriia[ OLEAPiJlER ASD THE i|§ ^ 



LAW30N1A AMEH.ICANA. 



The nerium oleander is orig-inally a red floweij and yel 

 in Batavia there are soim white specimens ; the lawsonia 

 nmericana ia ganerally white, and yet here it aaaumea a red 

 hue j which are in&tances of the cootrarietieg of the vegeta- 

 ble world. The lawsonia also ocdura of a deep red, a light 

 red, a dull yellow^ aud variegated ; so that tbera are altogether 

 four or' five kit^ds - they flower in all aeasoa9, and are never 

 out of bloom* 



ffl CAMTTStUM 



The Dutch in tlietr gardens make uasof the camunium aa 

 a hedge, round their parterres ; tiiey let it grow as high as 

 the knees and about a foot in thickness, cutting it twice «r 

 three limes a monthj and tumiag or connecting it according 

 to a pfeBcribed rule j the sides and eoruers not being an inch 

 out of order, eo that it looks like a waU^ while the foliage is 

 very thick and beautiful. 



NATrVg FLOWERS. 



The flowera peculiar to Batavia are the champaka ^ 

 ^ cheem-ch^-kak), michelia cfmnpakn, L. The tree on 

 which theee grow ia aa large aa the ficus indicua, and the 

 form of the llower when uanpened is something like a ^ 

 wooden pencfl flower, but smaller; the colour ia yelloWjand of 

 a dull or iickly smell. There ia another, called the^^ 



