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In the case of other rubbers, all of which have a tendency 

 to tackiness, the writer suggests that this depends to 

 some extent on the methods in use in coagulation and 

 quotes Tumelle's " Plantes a Caoutchoue " in corro- 

 boration of this. — ED. 



TREES ATTACKED BY TERMES 6ESTR0I. 



A planter in Johore sends some notes on a piece of 

 ground much infested by Termes Gestroi. He notes that 

 the prevalence of Termes Gestroi in hilly land, alleged by 

 Mr. Pratt, is hardly in accordance with his observations. 

 It has not, he writes, " taken me long to find out that 

 Termes Gestroi have their special hill and special lowland 

 trees. Just outside my fencing (hills) are three Teruntang 

 trees riddled with Termes Gestroi. I have seen this tree 

 attacked in swamps as well. In forty acres I destroyed 

 some hundred logs of Teruntang, each of which had a 

 a nest of Gestroi." He gives the following list of trees in 

 which he found nests or traces of nests of Termes Gestroi. 



Teruntang 



(Campnosperma auriculata) 



10 



Keminyan 



{Styrax Benzoin) 



54 



Pengara 



(Myristica sp) 



15 



Bintangor 



(Calophyllum) 



6 



Penang Banke 





2 



Damar 



(Shorea pp) 



I 



Midang Kelawar 



(Elaeocarpus parvifolius) 



2 



Tangkang 



(Xylopia ferruginea) 



I 



Engey Burong 



(S'tengah Burong, Evodia 







Roxburghiana) 



6 



Geronggang 



(Cratoxylon arborescens) 



5 



Kandis 



(Garcinia) 



I 



Mensurier 



{Ilex cymosa) 



2 



Klat Samak 



( Eugenia) 



I 



Terentai 





I 



Samarum 



(Sapotacea) 



2 



S'tebal 



(Fagroea racemosa) 



I 



Plajauw 





I 



Marer Bulan 



( prob. Gynotroches axillaris) 



6 



P'tai 



(Parkia Roxburghii) 



2 



Total 119 



I have added the identifications as far as I can 

 make them out by the native names given. 



