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Hevea planted instead. In Sumatra, Ficus is given more 

 consideration. I saw there very favourably situated 

 plantations, from which in the eighth year, two pounds of 

 dry rubber per tree were obtained. They were planted 

 as seedlings, carefully restricted to a single stem, and 

 better kept than those which I saw in the F. M. S. 



Ceara rubber is not being planted, I saw some experi- 

 mental plantations of this variety in the grounds at Kuala 

 Lumpur and also of the new Manihots (M.piauhyensis and 

 M. dichotoma). The bark is considered to be too thin and 

 the wood too frail; moreover the certainty that Hevea 

 yields large returns, is sufficient reason for the neglect of 

 other descriptions of rubber. In Ceylon I saw Ceara 

 planted with good results at 1600 feet above the sea-level, 

 at this height it is perhaps more suitable than Hevea. 



A few Castilloa trees are found on some estates they 

 are considered to be of little value. 



Funtumia is very rarely planted at all ; as was observed 

 in Java, Sumatra and Ceylon, it suffers from insect fests 

 to such an extent that there cannot be any question 

 of culture. 



In the following description Hevea alone will be 

 considered and as true a report as possible will be given 

 on the cultivation of. the plantation and the preparation 

 of the product in the Malay Peninsula. 



