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The timber is very highly valued, it is rather light yellowish 

 brown darkening with age as do the others of the genus, with 

 large and scanty pores and distinct rings. Weight 59 lbs. 



A very durable high class timber, highly valued for buildings 

 and boats. 



Vatica Sp ? Resak Buah ; Damar Laut (of Johore). 



A very good timber dark brown in colour but lighter than Damar 

 Laut No. satu, close in texture with very close fine pores, very 

 obscure rays and usually distinct rings. Weight 30 lbs. 10 oz., to 

 54 lbs. 



Vatica Teysmanniana, Burk. Giam (of Sumatra). 



I met with this tree in Siak and obtained leaves and fruits, and 

 think I have correctly identified it. It is a large tree 90 to IOO 

 feet or more tall with rough bark, and much Damar. The leaves 

 (of young plants) are elliptic acuminate with a long blunt point, 6 

 inches long and 1 \ inch wide, nerves arcuate reticulate, young- 

 leaves on the back and petioles (\ an inch long) scurfy tomentose. 

 Fruit globose \ an inch long calyx lobes, 2 developed into oblong 

 wings narrowed at the base and free from the fruit 2 inches long £ 

 inch wide, lesser wings J inch long narrow acuminate. Wood 

 dark brown not very heavy, rays fine and close, pores very nume- 

 rous small, no rings. Beams 90 feet long are said to have been 

 obtained from this tree. 



A sample of wood sent me as Kemaman Balau much resembles 

 this. It is a very good timber and is valued highly for building. 

 Leaves of a plant called Giam in Pahang obtained by Mr. H.C. Hill 

 seem to belong to an entirely different tree probably a Shorea. 



Damar putih described by Newton closely resembles Giam. It 

 was obtained from Langkat, and Newton states it is well suited for 

 piles as it is not affected by sea-worms. 



Supplementing Mr. W. W. Bailey's paper in the last Bulletin on 

 the attacks of white ants on Para Rubber, 1 take from a Pamph- 

 let issued by the " Imperial Department of Agriculture in the West 

 Indies " the following methods of combating insect ravages. There 

 can be no doubt that one of the worst evils the Planter has to con- 

 tend with is the ravages of insect pests in various forms ; it is there- 

 fore absolutely necessary that he should be equipped with all pos- 

 sible information for combating those ravages. As insect attacks 

 are very similar in all tropical countries, the methods of destruction 

 given in the following paper will be applicable in Malaya with per- 

 haps very slight modifications in certain cases which will be readily 

 understood by the Planter. The prices of some of the constituents 

 of the recipes given are what they can be had for in the West 

 Indies, so that they must be taken as approximate only of what they 

 can be purchased here. The same remark applies to the different 

 spraying apparatus. 



