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old trees of it in the Botanic Gardens, the remains of an old 

 avenue which led to a Chinese house which existed here before the 

 Gardens were founded, nearly all the trees are long dead but two 

 remain good and strong. The plant grows so well it might be 

 well worth introducing again, but there seems some difficulty in 

 procuring it. It has never fruited. 



C. obtusa is well represented here in pot plants, a number of 

 the pretty cultivated forms from Japan being introduced, but they 

 do not do well out of doors. 



C.pisifera, Koch.— is equally good as a pot plant and several 

 ornamental forms of this plant are in cultivation. 



Thuia dolabrata, Zuec— This has as yet been only cultivated as 

 a pot plant, as which it is very attractive. 



Th. orientals, L.— This which is often cultivated as a pot plant 

 and also planted out, does not do really well in this country. 

 Though plants live a long time when planted out, they have a habit 

 of dying at the ends, and getting to look shabby, I have never seen 

 a really good plant in the Straits, I am more inclined to attribute 

 this to the unsuitable soil than to the climate, and jt might do better 

 at higher altitudes where the hill soils are more friable. 



Sciadopitys verticillata, Sieb.— The Umbrella pine does very w^ejj 

 here as a pot plant, and is very attractive. It is not at all probata 

 that it would thrive in our poor soil planted out, as it is difficult to 

 grow well in Europe. 



Cryptomeria japonic^ Don. and its variety elegans are cultivated 

 as pot plants in the Botanic Gardens. . 



Agathis robusta, Br.-An Australian tree grows very ^U- 

 Straits Settlements and is commonly cultivated m Gardens, atfaajj 

 a large size. It is grown from seed, and though not of 

 growth soon becomes a striking tree. There are many we" 8 

 plants in various gardens of the Peninsula especially m ; ' : ■ .. 

 where its tall poplar-like spire of foliage makes it stanflj* 

 strikingly from the surrounding vegetation. It not rarely n ^ 

 but I have never seen ripe fruit. The tree appears to 

 unisexual. e 



A lorantkifolia, Salesb.— The indigenous species, a conirn° n 

 m the hill-forests of the Peninsula such as Penang HiH an 

 Thaiping Hills in Perak, does not thrive so well in the o» > 

 It attains a very large size in the forests. The timber ^ 

 quality and the tree is ver V rich in turpentine, of v,m 

 much when wounded. It is known to the Malays as Damn M r 



Araucaria Bidmlli, Hook._A native of Q-^g^ 

 cultivated here, and attains a fairly large size, but probaDi> 

 does not quite suit it as it never becomes very large. . . 



A. Cookzi, Br.— Of New Caledonia grows well 

 cultivated. , ^gp* 



A. .Cunningham,, Lamb, and its variety &"<l™£% ' 

 and New Guinea, grows very well and attains a large - 



