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Gardens' bulletin 



5TRAIT5 SETTLEMENTS, 



into which is incorporated all that has been published as the third .lerlcs of 

 the Agiicultural Bulletin of the Straits and Federated iTalay States. 



Vol. I. Issued August, 31st, 1915. No. 9. 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 

 Some Notes on Philippine Yams and the results of 



cultivation of three Indian races in 1914 - - 297 



Preparation of Yams for the Table - - - 304 



Different parts of the tubers of Dioscorea alata sprout 



at different rates - _ _ . 306 



Three Lepidoptera which attack Dioscoreas in Singapore 308 

 Fragments of Malayan Geographic Botany — No. i. Enu- 

 meration of Pahang plants collected by the late 



A. M. Burn-Murdoch - - - - 3 10 



Orchid Notes - - - - - 318 



The Singapore Prickly-Pear _ _ . 320 



A nest of living Drymoglossum piloselloides - 321 



Kenari seeds, Canarium rufum - - - 322 



One hundred miles for blow-pipe poison - - 323 



Rainfall at the Botanic Gardens, Singapore, in 1914 - 324 



Rainfall at the Waterfall Gardens, Penang, in 1914 - 326 



Summary of rainfall _ _ _ _ ^28 



Cadamustus typicus, a minor coconut pest - - 329 



A very destructive flash of lightning - - 329 



Borrowings from new books - - - 329 



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



Walsh. Ltd. No. 32 Raffles Place and 194 Orchard Road; and 



the Straits Times Office. Cecil Street. Singapore. 



