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pupate there in little chambers in the earth They appear to eat 



decayed fragments of roots, leaves etc. The beetle is half an-inch 

 long black covered with green scales. [Bulletin Ser I p. 252). 

 Hand picking or shaking into cloths and then destroying is the 

 best way of dealing with thfs pest. 



Triphada trifolio ate. — 1 he Lime-berry Limau Keah, is a shrub 

 which produces small oranges a^ big as a large pea, orange colour 

 with a taste of Marmalade. 'I he plant is probably a native of 

 China, but has long been cultivated all over the world. The fruits 

 are usually made into preserves with syrup and as such are very 

 palatable. They can also be used for making orange brandy. The 

 fruit being put into the brandy and left to stand for a year or two 

 in the same way as sloe-gin is made. The shrub is grown from set d 

 and grows very readily. It is often grown as a hedge plant, for 

 which it is well suited. 



BlJRSERACE/E. 



An order of trees of which the only one of which the fruit is 

 eaten is Canarium, the Kenari nut. The Canariums of which there 

 are a considerable number, possess fruits with a thin hard flesh 

 often of a turpentiney flavour covering an exceedingly hard seed 

 usually triangular about 1 \ inch long and sharply pointed at each 

 end. The best part of this fruit is the kernal of the stone which 

 tastes like a nut but it is very small and the stone is so haid 

 that it requires a hammer to break it, Canarium commune, of Java 

 is perhaps the best. 



The Chinese pickle a smaller species whole in salt and water 

 and preserve them in small jars which are sold in most of the 

 good shops. 



An unidentified species called Drija by the Malays was met with 

 at Kota Glanggi, where the Sakais had been collecting large quan- 

 tities of the fallen fruits for the sake of the kernals. 



SOME OBSERVATIONS ON COLLECTING LATEX 

 BY M. H. LECOMTE 



(Translated from t lie Journal D } Agriculture Tropicalc 10, p. too) 



The line demonstrations here given were made by M. LECOMTE 

 at Paris under the auspices of the Association Francaise pour 

 TAvancement des Sciences. 



The latex of rubber plants is enclosed in the laticiferous canals 

 of which the branching varies with the nature of the plant and 

 perhaps also with the biological conditions of the surroundings, 

 and it is therefore clear that an exact knowledge of the branching 

 of the laticiferous vessels is indispensable in order to Hx regula- 

 tions for a methodical plan of extraction. 



Unfortunately this study is always neglected so that the proces- 

 ses of obtaining the latex are purely empirical, and my intention is 

 not to consider all possible eases but only to call attention to a 



