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rice, and in the height, size of leaf, and spread of branches in the 

 tapioca. It is quite likely that some of these varieties are more 

 productive than those in general cultivation, but the Sundanese 

 natives are very slow to take up any new improvement. 



The approach to the center of the garden, the Landbouwweg, 

 is a beautiful drive, with a noble line of lofty royal palms on the 

 left and plots of coffee on the right. At the end of the drive are 

 situated some of the buildings, including the laboratory for 

 plant pathology, an ofhce building, and the usual shops, store- 

 houses and propagating grounds. At the east of these, at the 

 edge of the garden, are the attractive new laboratory buildings. 



In front of the old laboratories a small area is laid out in lawns 

 and decorative plants, but this area is typically tropic in design, 

 and is in no way an imitation of temperate zone landscape 

 architecture. Any visitor here will be interested in inspecting 

 the huge plant of the leguminous climber Entada scandens. 

 Mention has already been made in these sketches of the plant 

 of the same species growing, in the Botanical Garden, but this 

 one exceeds it in size. It has a basal diameter of about twenty 

 inches, and, although not so old as the famous Entada in the 

 Botanical Garden, has some advantages over it to the visitor. 

 Many of its original supports have died or been broken, so that 

 its twisted and tangled stems now lie on the ground in full view. 

 Under living trees they again ascend and are lost to sight in the 

 upper branches, although huge loops depending from heights of 

 from 30 to 80 feet indicate something of the luxuriance of its 

 growth. An entire morning was spent in tracing out in detail 

 the course of the numerous branches, over a thousand feet of 

 which are easily visible. In the tangle of foliage overhead Entada 

 leaves and stems are frequently distinguishable, although their' 

 origin can not be traced. At 30 yards from the base twisted 

 stems five inches in diameter loop down from the trees. In two 

 places branches stretch from tree to tree across a small stream. 

 At least twenty trees are covered by this huge climber, and the 

 most distant of these is over 50 yards from the base. The larger 

 branches of the vine are themselves covered with the epiphytic 

 ferns Drymoglossum heterophyllum and Asplenium nidus. 



