323 
Extract  from  a monthly  report  (January)  by  the 
District  Oflacer,  Kwala  Selangor,  1900. 
AN  ABNORMA.L  COCONUT. 
At  Assam  Java,  Kwala  Selangor,  there  is  a plantation  of  coconuts 
which  contain  two  trees  of  great  peculiarity.  Instead  of  the  bun- 
ches of  flowers  which  appear  on  the  ordinary  coconut  tree,  in  these 
two  instances,  in  the  place  thereof,  appear  shoots  which  jut  out  from 
the  tree  not  unlike  the  spike  of  a nipah-palm.  As  the  so-called 
spike  grows,  the  coconuts  themselves,  without  any  shew  of  flower 
whatsoever,  appear  in  line  along  the  whole  length  of  the  shoot 
somewhat  like  the  fruit  on.  a bunch  of  “ rambai  ” but  quite  close 
together.  As  the  nuts  swell,  the  number,  which  at  first  might 
amount  to  fifty  on  one  shoot,  is  gradually  lessened  as  they  fall  off 
before  maturity  and  in  the  end  there  probably  remain  some  7 or  8 
nuts  only  on  each  shoot,  of  which  there  may  be  apparently  about 
the  same  number  as  an  ordinary  ‘ coconut  tree  has  branches  of 
flowers. 
The  natives  here  have  never  heard  of  any  similar  trees  except 
these  two  and  they  call  them  “ nyor-nipah.  ” 
T.  F.  WELD. 
EXTRACTS  PROM 
The  Annual  Report  on  Forest  Administration  in  the 
Federated  Malay  States  for  the  year  1902. 
This  table  shows  the  proportion  of  forest  reserve  to  the  area  of 
the  whole  State  in  square  miles. 
— 
Area  of  State. 
Area  of 
reserves. 
Area  of  un- 
reserved 
forest. 
Percentage  of 
reserve  of  the 
whole  area. 
Perak 
7,325 
: 217.5 
1 
2.2 
Pahang 
14,000 
1 
Selangor 
3,200 
93-7 
...  j 2.Q 
Negri  Sembilan 
2,500 
2.4 
1 .096 
27,025 
3'3<) 
1.3 
The  percentage  for  the  Federated  Malay  States  is  therefore  oulv 
1 .3  of  the  whole  area,  a very  small  one. 
