THE PLANT-HOUSES 
The large planuhouse was constructed in 1882 and the annexe in 1889. Into them plants are brought from the 
propagating department for exhibition as they come into flower ; and the contents are always changing in such a way as 
to prevent anything but a general description being given in this guide. Orchids and Begonias are shown in the 
annexe, and Ferns, Aroids and other shade-plants in the large house. Over the roof are trained various creepers. 
Thunhergia grandiflora and T, laurifolia hang their large flowers into the house, Chonemorpha Rheedei, Odontadenia 
speciosa, Schlegelia parasitica^ Tecoma amboinensis and Tecoma ceramensis flaunt theirs in the sun outside. Among 
other climbers exhibited in more or less permanent positions is Dioscorea macroura from western Africa. In the 
elongated tips of its leaves are glandular chambers filled with mucilage and beneficial bacteria, which make a small 
amount of food for the plant. 
In a small house to the north-east plants with open water reservoirs are grown under mosquito netting. Nepenthes 
and Bromeliads are such. 
THE GARDENS’ JUNGLE 
The Gardens' Jungle consists of thirteen acres of nearly natural forest. To the visitor, who has no opportunity 
of penetrating into the great forests of the Peninsula, it affords a chance of realising the natural covering of the country ; 
while to the Gardens, it furnishes positions for the growth of a couple of hundred species, which could not be preserved 
alive without it. Among them are two or three not yet found elsewhere. To encourage interesting species a little 
interference has to be tolerated. The Liane Road passes through part of the Jungle, and there is a pa^t^h by which a 
visitor may penetrate deeper (see the map). 
The most lofty trees in the jungle are 1 50-1 70 ft. high, and are members of the family Dipterocarpacese, such as 
Shorea gratissimUf 5 . macroptera, S. rigida, Anisoptera megistocarpat and Hopea micrantha. With them are trees of 
other families, a little less lofty, such as Santiria Isevigata and Horsfieldia sucosa ; between them are trees, which still 
are to be counted tall, such as Artocarpus Scortechinii^ Parishia Maingayi, Dialium Wallichii, Pygeum polystachynm, 
Scorodocarpm borneensis, Gonostylus Maingayi and Eugenia Grijfithii ; and under them smaller trees, and again, nearer 
to the ground, palms, ferns and the seedlings of the larger trees. Among the lesser trees are about thirty species of 
the family Anonaceae. 
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