re ; by the authorities of the Calcutta Botanic Gardens 

 and a set was supplied to the Botanic Gardens, Singapore. 



It was proposed to publish a Flora of Perak based on these 

 collections, but it was considered advisable to add as much as was 

 procurable of the rest of the plants of the Malay Peninsula and 

 make the work more complete and useful and this was as well, as 

 these three collectors confined their researches to a large extent 

 in districts leaving unknown the flora of the lowlands, 

 *Wi contained so many of the important timber trees of which 

 nothing was known. 



Mr. C.Curtis who arrived at Penang in 1884 and took charge 

 of the Gardens there, was an excellent Botanist and devoted much 

 attention to the trees of Penang and added not a little to our 

 knowledge of these, especially of the very important and little 

 *nown group of Dipterocarpea: A set of his plants is preserved 

 ^ P° tan ^ C ^ ardens Herbarium in Singapore, and the study 



M J-R- W. Hullett, Master of the Raffles School, made an 

 tKalent collection of Singapore plants, obtaining many new species, 

 «en quite close to town /so little was our flora known up to iSSS. 

 f ™{ f rriv al of the present Director he munificently presented 

 J whole of his collections to the Singapore Herbarium. The 

 \fm> anUin at this time comprised Cantley'S collections, a few of 

 StS? S plants and some of Curtis' Penan? plants, and the old 

 I s Election, only. The Director therefore commenced to 

 jPore the flora of all parts of the peninsula which were accessible. 



\ ^ v v instructed to bring in what they found in 

 'unln! a ? dtramed to preserve them. Mr. DekRV in Malacca wlnl- 



;£ ye V n Forest work - btained a iar s e series of the Malacca 



Expeditions were made by the Director to Pahang, East 



The specimens 

 H t u " n exc hange for other plants, the study set being kept 

 Herbari rdsns " Xo attempt was made to make a general 

 2? L 0f th ^ world, as there was no room to store it. Only 



'^tiiv r ould thr ° w i'ght ° n the i ° cai flora or be useful in 



' ' ? r , those cultivated in the Gardens were incorporated. 

 ' -layan and Siamege lants were chieny required, and 

 - plained wherever possible. The collection of Malay 

 * n t> is probably the best in the world, and contains 

 r 9resent P H °i! types and co-types. Sarawak is also very well 

 b yavery complete set of Dr. Haviland'S collection, 

 'Wof u 0f P ,ants collected by Mr. BaRTLETT, formerly 

 ; he Museum there. A number of plants obtained by 

 . a considerable series, collected by myself in various 

 : let e irau "ak on the occasions of two visits, and an almost 

 lip Unci B °mean ferns collected bv the Right Reverend 



