Pennant, Thomas: The view of Hindoostan (Band 1) (London, 1798)

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ISLAND OF CEYLON.

Ceylon.) not aboriginal. Wolf mentions the lemon, and Burmcm,
in his Thefaurus, gives a little lemon, the Limon Nipis, Rumph. iL
tab. 29, perhaps the common lime.
Nepenthes; I now proceed to the wonder of the vegetable kingdom, the

famous Bandura, Burm. Zeyl. tab. 17, Cantharifera, or Daun
Gundi, Rumph. Amboin. v. tab. 59, the Nepenthes. Deftillatoria
of Linnaus.. This is an herbaceous plant, with marrow leaves..
From their ends iffues a very long tendril, which finifhes with
a long cylindrical tube, fometimes fix inches in length, and
furnifhed at the extremity with a circular valve,, completely at
times doling the orifice. - This is filled with a pure limpid
water, which continues during the time that the valve is fhut;
when it is open the liquor is dried up, but the flock is renewed
at night, when the valve is again clofed. Rumphius has feen a
pint of water in thofe of Amboina. They feem a variety of the
Ceylonefe, being thicker* in the middle. Thofe of Ceylon being
truly cylindrical.

The Dutch call this plant, Kannekens Kruyd,, or the Can-
Fruity from its fingular form. Linnaus, if I may collect from
the name, imagines it to have been the Nepenthes of Hornet's
OdyJfeyy Book iv. which we are told was prefented to Helen,
by the wife of 'Thane, king of Egypt, together with the receipt
for preparing

The mirth-infpiring bowl,..

Temper'd with drugs of fov'reign ufe t' affuage.

The boiling bofom of tumultuous rage :

To clear the cloudy front of wrinkled care,.

And dry the tearful fluices of defpair,

Charm'd