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The road from Garden Road to the officers' quarters was 

 remetalled with three inches of laterite, gravelled and consolidated 

 for 200 yards and 15 feet in width, and regravelled for 97 yards. 



The main drive from the office to the band-stand, which is 

 steep and had scoured, was patched to a considerable extent. 



The Garden road of a length of nearly five hundred yards, 

 running from Tyersall Road to Dalvey Road, was remetalled by 

 the Public Works Department. 



Drains and Culverts. 



5.— A mason and coolie were employed nearly the whole year 

 in patching and renewing urgently needed work. Two small drains 

 with cemented catch pits were made across the road between the 

 plant houses and godown. The side drains from terrace steps 

 towards the old aviary for 75 yards length and 6-7 inches wide 

 were renewed. 



The side drains along the four-foot path from the main 

 entrance to the old aviary were patched and repaired. The side 

 drain from the main entrance along the drive for 295 yards was 

 renewed. The large culvert near the officers' quarters was 

 lengthened and a new catchpit made. The cement paths in the 

 plant-house and sheds were repaired and as much of the old aviary 

 demolished as time allowed, the bricks being used for repairs. 

 The unsightly culverts on the band-stand paths have been renewed 

 and lowered so as to admit of a regular even path, and at the same 

 time the side drains on both sides of the path for 40 yards on 

 each side were renewed. The drain on one side of the main 

 drive from the plant-house steps to the band-stand has been 

 deepened and renewed for a distance of 90 yards. 



New or Noteworthy Plants. 



6— Among the more interesting novelties which flowered 

 during the year were:— 



Malayan :~Didymocarpus perdita.—{Pu\au Battam). 



Vanda Jtastifera.— (Borneo). 



A eschynanthus tricolor.— (Borneo). 



Aeschynanthus Lobbiana var?— (Borneo). 



Habenaria xanthocheila.—(Penang). 



Gastrochilus pukheilns n. pp.— (Borneo). 



Globba br achy anther a.— (Borneo). 



CUrodendron n. sp.— (Borneo). 



Begonia oblongifolia.— (Borneo). 



Peptromia n. sp.— (Borneo). 



Hapaline appendiculata n. sp.— (Borneo). 



Schismatoglottis brevipes.—( Perak). 



