SUMATRA* 
rumpumi^ kuddooee^ muncaodoo, fucmdoodoo^ keeiapm^ emhachaf}g^ tms^ 
kjay, aman* Some of them however are little fuperior to our common 
berries, but probably might be improved by culture. 
** You breathe, in the couatry of the Malays; fays the writer whom 
I before quoted an air impregnated with the odours of innumerable 
flowers of the greateft fragrance, of which there is a perpetual fuccef- 
fion the year routid,. the fweet flavor of which captivates the foul* and 
infpires the moft voluptuous fenfarions." Although this luxurious pic- 
ture may be drawn in too warm tints, yet it is not without it's degree of 
juftnefs. The country people are fond of flowers in the ornament of 
their perfons, and encourage their growth, as well as that of various odi- 
riferous ihrubs and trees. 
The cmmgOj being a tree of the largeft fize, and furpailed by few 
in the foreft, may well take the lead, on that account, in a defcription 
of thofe which bear flowers. Thefe are of a greenifh yellow, fcarcely 
diftinguiihable from the leaves, and feem to open only at fun-fet, when 
they diffufe a fragrance around,, that of a calm evening aiFe£ts the fenfes 
at the d [fiance of many hundred yards, 
Chmpac& (micheiia)^ This tree grows in a regular,, conical fliape. 
The flowers are a kind of fmall tulip, but clofe and pointed at top : the 
color a deep yellow : the fcent flrong, aod at a diftance very agreeable. 
They are wrapped in the folds of the hair, both of women and young 
men, who aim at gallantry.. 
Sa'%dappo, Pretty fhrub. The leaves very deep green, uith a long 
point. The flowers white,, of the pink kind,„but without vifible {lamina 
or plftil, the petals {landing angularly like the fails of a windmiiL P/- 
€har peifing. This is a grand white flower, and bears the fame relattoii: 
to the foregoing, that the carnation does to the common pink. The 
Batavian catalogue calls it dtrodmdrim*- 
