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on Monday is always much the worfe for keeping before a 
new flock can be bought, either by the retailer or confumer ; 
fo tha* for feveral days in every week there is no good fruit in 
the hands of any people but the Chinefe in Paffar Piffang. 
The inhabitants of this part of India praftife a luxury which 
feems to be but little attended to in other countries ; they are 
continually burning aromatic woods and refins, and fcatter 
odours round them in a profufion of flowers, poflibly as an 
antidote to the noifome effluvia of their ditches and canals. 
Offweet fmelling flowers they have a great variety, altogether 
unknown in Europe, the chief of which I fiiall briefly describe. 
I. The Champaka or Micbelia Ghampacca. This grows 
upon a tree as large as an apple tree, and ccnfiils of fifteen long 
narrow petala, which give it the appearance of being double, 
though in reality it is not fo : its colour is yellow, and much 
deeper than that of a jonquil, to which it has lome refem- 
blance in fmell. 
g. The Cananga or U-varia Cananga, is a green flower, not 
at all resembling thebloffom of any tree or plant in Europe : 
It has indeed more the appearance of a bunch of leaves than a 
flower ; its fcent is agreeable, but altogether peculiar to itfelf. 
3. The Mulatti , or Nyclantbes Sambac. This is well known 
in English hot-houfes by the name of Arabian jefTamine : it 
grows here in the greatefl profuficn, and its fragrance, like 
that of all other Indian flowers, though exquifitely pleafing, 
has not that over, powering flrength which diftinguifhes fome 
of the fame forts in Europe. 
4, 5. The Comb an g CaraaiaJJi, and Co?nlang Tonquin, Per- 
cularia Glubro. Theie are fmall flowers, of the dog’s-bane 
kind, very much refembling each other in fhape and fmell, 
h'ghly fragrant, but very different from every produdl of an 
Englifn garden. 
6. The Bonga ' Tanjong , cr Mimcufops Elengi of Linnaeus. 
This flower is fhaped like a flar of feven or eight rays, and is 
about half an inch in diameter ; it is of a yellowifh colour, 
and has an agreeable fmell. * 
Befides thefe, there is the Suntfal Malam , or Pollavthes Tu- 
berefa. This flower, being the fame with our own tuberofe, 
can have no place among thofe that are unknown in Europe, 
but I mention it for its Malay name, which fignifies “ In- 
“ triguer of the Night,” and is not inelegantly conceived. 
The heat of this climate is fo great, that few flowers exhale 
their fweets in the day ; and this in particular, from its total 
want of feent at that time, and the modefly of its colour, which 
is white, feems negligent of attracting admirers, but as focn 
as night comes on, it diffufes its fragrance, and at once com- 
pels the attention, and excites the complacency of all who ap- 
proach it. 
Thefe 
