DEPARTMENTAL NOTICES. 



A new List of Plants, which may be purchased from the Botanic 

 Gardens, Singapore or Penang, is in the press. 



Eequests for yams should be received at once. 



Plants of the Avocado or Alligator Pear — Persea gratissima, — 

 and Brazil nut — Bertholletia excelsa, — to be sold within the Penin- 

 sula at fifty cents each. 



Seeds of Hevea brasiliensis — Para Rubber — as available from 

 trees, twenty-eight years old, to be sold at three dollars per thousand 

 up to the number of ten thousand, and at two dollars and fifty cents 

 for every further thousand on the same order. 



The Gardens' Bulletin is published as material becomes available. 

 Its price is fifty cents a copy, post free, or in advance for a volume 

 of twelve numbers, post free, 



Five dollars in the Straits and Federated Malay States. 



Nine and a half rupees in India and Ceylon. 



Thirteen shillings in Europe. 



