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stocks on hand are several thousand tons more to-day than they were 

 a year ago. So until a marked improvement takes place in the demand, 

 especially in America, it is difficult to see where any advance in prices 

 can come from, and considering the gigantic scale upon which planting 

 in all parts of the world, including West Coast of Africa and the 

 Congo, has been going on, it is clear production will be doubled in a very 

 few years. Brazil at present maintains her export duty of about 

 25 per cent., and it is impossible to see how this can be continued 

 much longer. 



London Stock of Plantation Rubber, 31st December, 1907, 

 145 tons, against 78 tons last year. 



Highest 

 1907. 1906 1905 



Plantation Para ... 5/10 6/3 6/9} 



Fine Para (Amazon) 5/2 5/5 5/9 



Lowest. 

 1907. 1906. 



3/8 5/5 

 3/3l 5/- 



1905 

 5/ii 



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The Materials for a Flora of the Malay Peninsula. 



This work was commenced by Sir George King in 1888, parts being 

 published in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal as they 

 were finished. The parts dealing with Gamopetalae and some other 

 groups were contributed by Dr. Prain, Mr. C. B. Clarke and Mr. 

 Gamble. In the matter of Dicotyledons the orders are finished as 

 far as the end of the Gamopetalae except the Verbenaceae and 

 Gesneraeceae which will shortly be published by Mr. Gamble. Three 

 volumes of the Monocotyledons were published independently in 1907 

 by the Director of the Botanic Gardens, Singapore. The first volume 

 contains the Hydroclparideae, Orchideae and Apostasiaceae. The 

 second contains the Scitamineae and other orders to the end of palms ; 

 the third from the Aroids to the grasses, completing the account of 

 the Monocotyledons as far as is known. 



These three volumes are now on sale at the Botanic Gardens, 

 Singapore, and at Messrs. Kelly and Walsh, 32 Raffles Place, Singapore, 

 and at the Crown Agents, Whitehall Gardens, London, at the price 

 of 5 dollars or 15 shillings for each volume and 10 dollars or 30 

 shillings for the three volumes. 



It is proposed to issue shortly an index to each volume. — H. N.R. 



Death of Mr. A. B. Stephens. 



We much regret to have to record the death of Mr. Arthur Bligh 

 Stephens which took place in the beginning of January, at Taiping. 

 Mr. Stephens was originally connected with planting for twenty years 

 before he joined the Federated Malay States Government as Assistant 

 Indian Immigration Agent, 1892. He was appointed Deputy Con- 

 servator of Forests, Perak, in 1903, and acted as Conservator of 

 Forests during the absence of Mr. Burn-Murdoch. 



