SUMATRA. 
7>rto«^ hro^i or monkey-cup. A vine with an uncommon, monope- 
talous flower, growing on a tendril from the extremity of the leaf, in 
fhapc fomewhat like the pod of a Windlbr-bean. Ac rop is a cover^ 
or valve, which opens and fhuts with a hinge, but ufually remains open, 
and as the cup is always ere^t, it is found full of water, from the rains 
or dews. 
Imhang. A flirub, of which the leaf is fmall, light green, of an ir- 
regular figure. The flower is a light purple, with five yellow flamina. 
The fruit is very fmall, round, whitifli, and bitter, but eaten by the 
natives, 
CachooUfig (datUTM ) Large white fiomer \ monopetalous, infundibuH- 
form, rather pentagonal than rm7nd, with a fmall hook at each angle* 
The ftamina are five with one pointal. The ihrub has much foliage; 
the leaves dark green, pointed, and fquare at the bottom. The fruit is 
of the fhape of an apple, very prjckly, and contains a multitude of 
feeds. It appears to grow moftly by the fea fide. 
Setach, A pretty rofaceoiis, crimfon flower, with five fmall petals, 
and as many ftamina. It is a long tube, growing from a calyx covered 
with purple hair- 
Weftcoafl creeper. I know not the country name. A beautiful little, 
crimfon, monopetalous flower, divided into five angular fcgments. It 
hssfive ftamina of unequal heights, purple, and one ilyle, white, with 
a biform, rough fligma. The plant is a luxuriant creeper, with a 
crinated or hairlikc leaL The flower clofcs at funfet. 
The fcorpion flower is Angular arid remarkable. In it's fliape it very 
much referobles the infea from which it takes it's name, and the ex- 
trcnnty of the tail has a flrong finell of mufk*. 
The foregoing is but an imperfea: account of the flowers which are 
of the growth of Sumatra. Befide thofe, there are abundance, of 
