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Madagascar 
TANANARIVE (ANTANANARIVO) 
Parc BoTANIQUE ET ZOOLOGIQUE DE TANANARIVE 
Established: 1927. Area: 23 ha 
Directors: Frangois (Head Gardener) (1927-1934); P. Boiteau 
(Directeur du Jardin Botanique) (1934— DE 
Serves as a public park. Open free, daily, except Sunday. 
Source of income: Government appropriations. Herbarium: 4000 
specimens (local flora). Plantations: Ecological (Ombrarium, 
Rocailles, Plantes Humides, etc.). Publication: Index Seminum 
et Sporarum (Index l’Echanges). Museum: Being reorganized. 
Lectures are given to school children and study material is loaned 
and given toschools. Greenhouses include an “ aseptic’ house for 
growing Rhizoctonia symbionts of indigenous orchids. Note: 830 
species cultivated—230 ee flora, 600 foreign, eel 
xerophytes from Mexico, U. S. A., So. Africa and Mauriti 
Malta 
FLORIANA (Suburb of LA VALLETTA) 
Tue Botanic GARDEN OF THE RoyAL UNIVERSITY OF MALTA 
(Arcotti Botanic GARDEN) 
Established: 1675 or 1676, “in the moat of St. Elmo” (at the 
northeast extremity of Valetta within the high wall of the 
fortifications), under the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, by 
Dr. Josephus Zammit, a Maltese physician and Abbot to the 
Order. He was professor of botany in the University of Malta. 
Not a trace of this garden is left. 
In the early 19th century (1805?) under the British Govern- 
ment, the Garden was transferred to Floriana, between the inner 
and outer fortifications, south of Valetta. In 1804 (1805?) the 
professor of botany was P. F. Carolus Hyacinthus (Giacinto), 
Carmelita Excalceatus, who planted the ‘“ Maglio,” at the south- 
west end of Valetta. About 1855 the Garden was transferred 
to another site in Floriana, where the old palace and grounds of 
Bailiff Argotti stood. The botanic garden was then allotted 
only one-third of an acre, and the rest of the area, including 
“the Maglio” (where the monks of St. John played the game 
