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Some account of Batavia

any European flower, either in appearance which is more like a bunch of leaves than a flower, or smell, which however is very agreable, 3. Mulatti is well known in English hot houses under the name of Arabian Jasmine, it is here in prodigious abundance, & certainly as fragrant as any flower they have, but of this as well as all the Indian sweets flowers it may be said, that tho full as sweet as any European ones even of the same sorts, they have not that overcoming strengh, in short their smell tho very much the same, is much more delicate & elegant than any we can boast of.
4 & 5. Combang Caracnassi &Combang Tonquin are much alike in shape & smell, small flowers of the dogs bane kind, hardly to be compard to any in our English gardens, but like all the past most elegant in their fragrance. 6. Sundal Malam the same as our English Tuberose, this flower is less in size considerably, as well as more mildly fragrant than ours in Europe, the Malay name signifies intriguer of the night, from an Idea rather pretty, the heat of the climate here allows few or no flowers to smell in the day,
 

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