Estimated crop. 

 Highlands and Lowlands. (300.000) 



Batu Caves 



Seafield 



Seremban (165.000) 



Anglo Malay ..... (430.000) 

 London Asiatic .... 



Golden Hope 



Petaling 



Beverlac (Selangor). . . (55.000) 



Linggi (372.ooo) 



Sungei Kapar (60.000) 



Lanadron (250.000) 



Damansara (160.000) 



Selangor (300.000) 



Labu (65.000) 



Ledbury 



Actual returns. 

 341.986 Ibs 



43490 

 228.626 

 5^.232 



75-202 



51400 

 I5L994 



76.969 

 527.000 

 1 14.000 

 249.247 

 203.007 



323-9J9 

 86.000 



65.979 



The exported rubber is almost exclusively obtained 

 from Para rubber trees (Hevea brasiliensis}. This variety 

 was imported in 1876; in some places imported trees 

 are still to be seen. In the Botanical Garden at Singapore, 

 there is for instance a plantation, thirty-three years old, 

 which has grown to really gigantic forest-trees. Originally 

 various kinds of rubber were planted in the Malay States ; 

 experiments were made with Ficus (Rambong), Castilloa, 

 Funtumia and Manihot. There still exist some regular 

 Ficus Plantations, which are tapped systematically. 



An error has been made by planting cuttings, which 

 do not form a straight trunk, and in the plantation which 

 I saw maintenance was neglected. On one estate I saw 

 a Ficus plant, some few years old, being cut down and 



