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Early distribution of Para rubber plants. 



1876. 1,919 plants from Kew to Peradeniya, Ceylon; 18 plants to 



Buitenzorg ; a consignment which may have failed ultimately 

 to Singapore. 



1877. The greater part of the consignment in Ceylon planted out at - 



Heneratgoda. 22 plants to Singapore from Kew, of which 

 some taken to Kwala Kangsar; 4 to Buitenzorg; 8 plants to 

 Mergui, (from Kew) via Calcutta. 



1878. Plants sent to Brisbane from Singapore; 500 from Ceylon to 



Mergui ; others to Malabar. 



1879. } plants to the Malay Peninsula, from Ceylon. 



1880. 2 plants from Ceylon to Travancore. 



1881. 28 plants from Ceylon to the Andaman islands; others to 



Johor. 



1882. Plants from Ceylon to British North Borneo. 



1883. Seeds from Singapore to Sarawak and Kwala Kangsar: 27 



stumps from Ceylon to Malabar; 12 to Mr. Davidson in 

 Singapore. 



1884. 26 stumps from Ceylon to Malabar, and also seeds. 



1885. 300 seeds from Ceylon to Malabar; 400 to Singapore. 



1887. Seeds from Ceylon to Mergui and to Malabar, and also 



to Penang and N. Borneo ; seeds from Kwala Kangsar to 

 Taiping. 



1888. 11,500 seeds from Ceylon to Singapore and to Kwala Kangsar; 



3,000 seeds from Ceylon to Central India. 



The very first tree to flower in the East seems to have been one 

 of those which were taken by Murton to Kwala Kangsar; for it is 

 recorded that a tree there flowered in March, 1880, at the age of iH 

 years.* Another flowered at Heneratgoda. In the next year one 

 at Heneratgoda yielded nine seeds and in 1882 thirty-six seeds 

 (Trimen in Kew Bulletin, 1898, p. 254). At Kwala Kangsar the tree 

 which flowered first, flowered again, but without fruiting; however 

 at its third flowering in 188 1 it set fruit, and in doing so was accom- 

 panied by another tree which then flowered for the first time (Petch 

 in Annals of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya, v., 1914, p. 445). 

 In 1882, nine trees flowered and fruited at Heneratgoda. Probably in 

 1883 t trees first fruited at Singapore ; and seed was now sent from 

 the latter place to Sarawak and Kwala Kangsar. But not until 1884 

 was there any flowering at Peradeniya and Mergui. 



* liqually early flowering was recorded in the Agricultural Bulletin of the Straits and 

 F.M.S., VI, 1907, p. 176; !Lnd yet enrVitr in the Report of tlu! Forest Diparlmcnt Ceylon, foi lSg4. 



t The date of the first fruiting of Hevea in Singapore cannot have been 1881 as stated ia 

 the Agricultural Bulletin of the Straits and F.M S., iv.. 1905, p. 365, for Cantley in his Annual 

 Report on the Botanic Gardens, Singapore, for the year 1882. p 12, wrote ' an early crop of seed 

 is looked forward to" as growth had been good in spite of the throw-baek suffered from the 

 poverty of the soil into which they had been transplanted in 1878. 



