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EUTYPA CAULIVORA. 



Two excellent photographs of this fungus (of which some account 

 was given in the Bulletin IX. p. 216-218) are published in the Kew 

 Bulletin No. 7, 1910, by M. Massee, who writes as follows : 



" Other species of Eutypa as E. erumpens Mass, and E. gigaspora 

 Mass, are distinctive parasites to timber trees and undoubtedly cauli- 

 vora is a tree parasite, though the fruit of the fungus only appears on 

 the trunk when the tree is dead. A section of the trunk shows the 

 dark lines formed by the mycelium of the fungus extending quite to 

 the centre and proves that in the example under consideration the 

 fungus has been present in the tissues for some considerable time 

 previous to the death of the tree. Death ensued from starvation 

 owing to the water supply from the root being checked by the copious 

 development of the mycelium in the water conducting tissue. It is 

 highly probable that the fungus occurs on indigenous trees and has 

 passed from thence to the cultivated rubber trees which, judging from 

 the materials received, prove to be admirably adapted to meet the re- 

 quirements of the parasite. A careful search for this fungus in 

 indigenous trees should be made and its extermination attempted if 

 discovered in localities where the establishment of a rubber plantation 

 is contemplated." 



I have found the Eutypa also on cut logs of Macaranga Griffithii, 

 a common tree of the class called Mahang by Malays, and an ally at 

 least of Para rubber being one of the Euphorhiaceae and which is 

 probably the original host of the Eutypa. — Ed. 



LOCAL FLOWER POTS MAKING. 



It is perhaps well-known to everyone, that the Chinese were really 

 one of the pioneers in the art of pottery, and so a short resume as to 

 their method of making flower-pots may not be amiss. 



Very few implements are used by them in the process, and it is 

 really surprising at the rapidity by which they cast out of a shapeless 

 mass of clay, a 5, 10, or 12 inch pot, as the case may be. 



Clay, i.e., ordinary local clay, is the substance used, to which is 

 added some fine silver sand also got locally. These two substances 

 are thoroughly mixed together by chankol (native spade) and by hand. 



A good ** potter's wheel " is the essential part of the equipment. 

 This consists of a large flat disc of stone which revolves on a wooden 

 pivot (made of Tembusu) sunk in the ground. This disc is revolved 

 at a good speed by the foot of a Chinaman, who whisks it round and 

 round according to the needs of another coolie, the later performing 

 the actual operation of moulding the clay into the shape of pots. 



