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R. hutan) dan Bawang Puteh tiga hiris dan Halia Merah 



Tombok Bukit. — Pakai juga fasal meradak — akarnya. 

 Mata Pelandok. — Pakai fasal sakit telinga— daunnya. 

 Lidah Jin. — Dimakan < 



baik tuboh perampu 



tiga, daunnya merah sakrat. 

 Tampa Besi dan Kesinan dan Sena.— Fasal penyakit seduan 



sundal ; akarnya asah dengan ayer. 

 Kuncha. — Pakai fasal penyakit medu — daunnya. 

 Dukong Anak. — Fasal membaikki tuboh perampuan; pakai 



Champa dan daun Sisek Puiyu-puiyu.— Pakai fasal kanak- 

 kanak kena chaching naik ka-mata — ambil daunnya giling, 

 habis dipuput. 



Sapucha Pelandok. — Fasal kuat zekar— pakai akarnya dima- 

 kan dengan Aleh Betinggong dan Ubi Besi. Makan 

 dengan Sireh Pinang. 



DISEASES OF COCOA-NUT PALMS 



The attention of cultivators of cocoa-nuts in the West India 

 glands has been called of late to the occurrence of a serious disease 

 nown as the 'bud-rot.' Mention has already been made of it in the 

 Agricultural News (Vol. IV, pp 299 and 369), and all the informa- 

 ll on relating to the disease was collected and reprinted in the West 

 'Mian Bulletin (Vol. VI, pp. 307-21) in the hope of assisting cocoa- 

 n«t planters. Owing, however, to the anxiety that was felt in regard to 

 reDnrt C< ri a " nUt lndlMrv of Trinidad, where large numbers of palms were 



ported ;ts having died, Mr. F. A. Stockdale, b. a., the Mycolo- 

 gy on the staff of the Imperial Department of Agriculture, after 

 W 1 ?^ ma "y s Pecimens; paid a visit to that colony in July and 

 nut n a l I9 ° 6, t0 inc * uire into the causes of the diseases of the cocoa - 

 Rims, which were reported to be prevalent there. 



2ener!i Tri ? idad R °yal Gazette, of February 14, 190?. publishes for 

 which V nf T ation a re P° rt b y Mr - Stockdale on this visit, in 

 Palms in% SCribed three different diseases attacking cocoa-nut 

 J; '.' 1 nmdad. The three diseases have been called the ' Root 

 extraSU / Leaf disease,' and the 'Bud-rot.' The following 



nave been taken from the report :— 

 ^stribni 00 ) 1 dis ? ase is < without doubt, the most serious ; it is widely 

 ul( -°. and is causing considerable loss in some districts. 



Tv: . Root Disease. 



<odiplodia 



an( l may h Pparent, y caused by a fungus, a species of Botryodiploc 

 lc 'aves L f, rec ,°§ ni 'zed by the yellowing and hanging down of 

 ' b > the disorganized condition of the cortex of the roots, 



