The 



Gardens' Bulletin 



5TKAIT5 SETTLeneiNTS 



Vol. II 



Issued September 12th, 1919 



CONTENTS. 



Eaces of the Coconut Palm 



Echinodia theobromae 



Lightning and Hevea 



The Composition ef a Piece of Well-drained Singapore 

 Secondary Jungle thirty years old 



Twin Nutmeg Seeds 



Dioscorea alata-the Greater Yam 



Dioscorea kegeliana, Griseb., the "Yam Poule" of the 

 West Indies 



Yields of the Lesser Yam and of some African Yams 

 Some Notes on the Pollination of Flowers in the Botanic 



Gardens, Singapore and in other parts of the Malay 



Peninsula 



No. 5. 



Page. 

 143 



144 

 145 



145 

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 158 



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 159 



165 



To be purchased at the Botanic Gardens, Singapore ; or from Messrs. Kelly and 

 v> Walsh Ltd., No. 32, Baffles Place, Singapore. c)J 



Printed at tbs Methodist Publishing House, Singapore. 



