admired blossom, well known in Bengal; but in the upper parts of India, called nagakeh-sir, and in the Batavian Transactions Acacia aurea.  The bakong, or salandap (Crinum asiaticum), is a plant of the lily kind, with six large, white, turbinated petals of an agreeable scent.  It grows wild near the beach amongst those plants which bind the loose sands.  Another and beautiful species of the bakong has a deep shade of purple mixed with the white.  The kachubong (Datura metel) appears also to flourish mostly by the seaside.  It bears a white infundibuliform flower, rather pentagonal than round, with a small hook at each angle.  The leaves are dark green, pointed, broad and unequal at the bottom.  The fruit is shaped like an apple, very prickly, and full of small seeds.  Sundal malam or harlot of the night (Polyanthes tuberosa) is so termed from the circumstance of its diffusing its sweet odours at that season.  It is the tuberose of our gardens, but growing with great vigour and luxuriance.  The bunga mawur (Rosa semperflorens, Curtis, Number 284), is small and of a deep crimson colour.  Its scent is delicate and by no means so rich as that yielded by the roses of our climate.  The Amaranthus cristatus (Celosia castrensis, L.) is probably a native, being found commonly in the interior of the Batta country, where strangers have rarely penetrated.  The various species of this genus are called by the general name of bayam, of which some are edible, as before observed.

PANDAN.

Of the pandan (pandanus), a shrub with very long prickly leaves, like those of the pineapple or aloe, there are many varieties, of which some are highly fragrant, particularly the pandan wangi (Pandanus odoratissima, L.), which produces a brownish white spath or blossom, one or two feet in length.  This the natives shred fine and wear about their persons.  The pandan pudak, or keura of Thunberg, which is also fragrant, I have reason to believe the same as the wangi.  The common sort is employed for hedging and called caldera by Europeans in many parts of India.  In the Nicobar islands it is cultivated and yields a fruit called the melori, which is one of the principle articles of food.

EPIDENDRA.

Bunga anggrek (epidendrum).  The species or varieties of this remarkable tribe of parasitical plants are very numerous, and may be said to exhibit a variety of loveliness.  Kaempfer describes two kinds by the names of angurek warna and katong’ging; the first of which I apprehend to be the anggrek bunga putri (Angraecum scriptum, R.) and the other the anggrek kasturi (Angraecum moschatum, R.) or scorpion-flower, from its resembling that insect, as the former does the butterfly.  The musky scent resides at the extremity of the tail.*

(Footnote.  Habetur haec planta apud Javanos in deliciis et magno studio colitur; tum ob floris eximium odorem, quem spirat, moschi, tum ob singularem elegantiam et figuram scorpionis, quam exhibet...spectaculo sane jocundissimo, ut negem quicquam elegantius et admiratione dignius in regno vegetabili me vidisse...Odorem flos moschi exquisitissimum atque adeo copiosum spargit, ut unicus stylus floridus totum conclave impleat.  Qui vero odor, quod maxi me mireris, in extrema parte petali caudam referentis, residet; qua abicissa, omnis cessat odoris expiratio.  Amoen exoticae, page 868.)