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that the country produces. It is much worn by the women, along with 
the boongo tanjong, and always planted near their houfes. It may be 
remarked that ** kmge" or flower, is always prefixed to the names of 
thefe, as ii^QOa^* to the fritit. Thus the natives fay^ konp mellmr^ 
hcongo TiQ* 
TanjGvtg, k fair tree, rich in foliage, of a dark green: The flotes 
are radiated, and of a yello^vilh white. They arc worn in wreaths by 
women. The fcent^ though exquifite at a diftance, is too powerful 
T^hen brought nigh* The fruit Is a drupcj cnclofing a large, blackifh, 
flatted feed, 
Smndal mallam^ or harlot of the night, from the circumftance of it's 
blowing only at that time. This is a monopetalous, infundibuliform, 
white flower, of the tuberofe kind. The tubes which rife from the 
fingle ftem, divide into fix, deep fegmcnts, pointed, flightly reflexed, 
and placed alternately under and over. The flamina, which are fix, 
adhere clofely to the in fide of the tube, their apices only being free. 
The ttyie rifes from the germen only half way in the tObe^ feparating 
at top into three iligmata* 
Geering larida, A papilionaceous flower refembling the lupin, or the 
fpartiuni more exadrly. It is yellow, and tinged at the extremes with 
red. The leaves are broad^ pointed, and treble on each flalk. The 
feed rattles loudly in the pod, from whence the name ; ^* g^^f^^Z^* fig- 
nifying the fmall bells worn by children about their legs and arms: 
latida>'* is a hedgehog, to the fpines of which animal they probably 
may fomctimes adhere. 
Damp. A white, homely flower ; femiflofculous ; faint fmell* The 
leaves of the plant are curious, being double, as if two were joined to- 
gether, and folding with a hinge. The pod refembles the French-bean, 
contains feveral flat feeds. 
