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Baon^c rm Tall, handfome flirub. The flower red, with juice of a 
deep purple J called alfo rhe ihoe flower, from the purpofe it's jutoe 
fcas often been converted to by Europeans. Another fort has white 
fiowers. The leaves, of the tree are of a pale, yellowilh green, ferrated 
and curled. 
Cit6mbmgamoj0nr. This is always planted about graves. The flower 
is large, white, but yellow towards the center, of a ilrong fcent, aad 
con fitting of five fimple, fmooth, thick petals, without vifiblc piftil or 
flatnina. The tree grows in a Hunted irregular manner, and even whllft 
young, has a venerable, antique appearance. The leaf is long, pointed^, 
of a deep green, but moft remarkable in this, that the fibres which run 
from the mid rib, are bounded by another that goes in a waving line all 
round, within a fmall diftance of the circumference,, forming a kind of 
border. 
Sahndap (crinumorafphodel iily). It grows in a large umbell ; each 
flower on a long footflalk, which divides into fix large, white, turbinated 
petals, of an agreeable fcent. The ftamina are fix in number, about 
two inches long. The leaves are of the fpear kind, of a large fize. This 
plant grows wild upon the beach, among thofe weeds which bind the 
loofe fands. The Batavian catalogue calls the crinum, hacong, Faudan 
cQfigey^ A beautiful fpecies of the falandap. The generic marks are the fame, 
but it is larger, and has a deep fliade of purple mixed with the white. 
Of the pandan^ which is a Ihuib with very long prickly leaves, like 
thofe of the pine apple or aloe, there are many varieties ; of which one 
produces a whitiib bloflbm, a foot or two in length, which has not much 
the appearance of a flower, but has a very ftrong odoriferous fmcll, 
which is perceived at a great diftance. The common kind is employed 
for hedging. 
The Mellocr OT melattee (nydtanthes) is an humble platit, bearing a 
pretty white flower, of the moft agreeable fcent^ in the opinion of many,. 
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