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Scindapsus Scortechinii, Hookfil. ... Perak. 



Rap hidophora Lobbii, Schott, ... Singapore. 



R. grandis, Ridl. ... Sarawak. 



Pothos scandens, Lour, Var. ... Sarawak. 



HIGH PRICE FOR RUBBER. 



The Times of Malaya reports that at an auction sale in Singa- 

 pore, on July 26th, $4.10 cents per lb. was paid for Para sheets from 

 Plang Estate, Sungei Siput, owned by Kdwin Philips. This price 

 at the exchange rate of the day was equivalent to 6/1 1\, and is 

 almost the highest price on record. 



The latest sale price received (December 8, 1905.) gives 6/iJ, as 

 the highest price for biscuits, Scrap fetched from 3/6 to 5/5 f , per lb. 

 Assam rubber fetched 3/7I, for fair quality. Rubber seed was ship- 

 ped in some quantity from Ceylon, but all bought in. 



A BIG AFRICAN RUBBER COMPANY. 



We see that a very large rubber Company for Africa is being 

 formed under the name of the Liberian Rubber Corporation, among 

 the directors of which are Sir Harry JOHNSTON and Sir T. WEST 

 RlDGEWAY. It is intended to work an enormous area of rubber 

 producing forest, 20,000 square miles which produces Landolphia 

 Owariensis and two other species of Landolphia, Cl'tandra nitida 

 and membranacea, Carpodinus Oocarpa and another species, Raw- 

 wolfia vomitoria ) Funtumia elastica, Ficeus Whytei, Johnstoni 

 Guineensis, Barteri and other species. Labour is plentiful and 

 planting these rubber plants in the forests will be continued. It is 

 proposed to have 30 stations for collecting the rubber. This rubber 

 is not of the best quality but sells at 2/8^ to 2/9^ per lb. and it is 

 expected after all expenses have been deducted to get a profit of 

 about £125 per ton. It is expected to obtain 500 tons of rubber 

 per year from this region. 



ANIMAL AND FUNGUS PESTS OF FICUS 

 ELASTICA IN JAVA. 



In Bulletin No. 3 of the Algemeen Proefstation of Salatiga 

 (1905) Dr. S. H. KOORDERS and Dr. L. Zehnier, give an account 

 of the pests injurious to the Rambong in Java. Among the animals 

 the Kijang (Cervulus muntjac) and probably the Kanchil eat the 

 leaves of the young plants. Among Coleoptera, Batocera albofasciata, 

 a species of Epicedia and Petrognatha gigas var spinosa bore up the 

 stems in a larval state. Abirus picipes, a leaf-eating chafer gnaws 

 the leaves of young plants. Of Lepidoptera Hypsa egens, Porthesia 

 xanthorrhoea, Dasychira, Ocinuria signifera, O'dilectula and Gly- 

 phodes bivitralis and two Psychid caterpillars have been found 

 attacking the leaves. A figure of the Glyphodes moth and larva, and 



