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with round white (K. monocephala ) or green heads ( K . brevifolia). 
These have rather an aromatic flavour but are liked by some animals 
especially dogs. Small species of Scleria and Fimbristylis also fill 
up bare" spaces. The Pegaga, Hydrocotyle asiatica , with round 
leaves borne on its slender creeping stem, is much sought by na- 
tives as a medicine. Slender white flowered Hedyotis, white and 
brown flowered Torenia polygonoides and many other little weeds 
occur and help to cover the ground. 
Perhaps the most objectionable weeds for tennis grounds are the 
Tutup Bumi, Elephaniopus scaber , which has a flat rosette of broad 
leaves and a stiff stem bearing a tuft of very small pink flowers. 
It is easily eradicated however, by spudding it up. 
The sensitive plant ( Mimosa pudica) is often very troublesome 
in lawns and is very objectionable in fodder. It is accused of kill- 
ing cattle when mixed with their grass, by causing inflammation of 
the stomach and intestines by its small thorns, and also it is said 
that sheep suffer much from the spiny fruits getting between the 
toes and ulcerating them. It is a very persistent weed and grows 
with great rapidity. 
Introduced Grasses. 
We have had from time to time a number of fodder plants con- 
sidered to be valuable in various parts of the world : most of these 
however, having come from dryer or colder climates have proved 
useless, either not growing at all or refusing to propagate suffi- 
ciently, and disappearing in a few years. 
Trie ho l oena Tuner riff ce , a fairly good fodder grass was intro- 
duced some years ago and held its own against other weeds for 
some two or three years, but was then defeated and quite dis- 4 
appeared. 
Andropogon ( Sorghum ) halepen e though not spreading at all 
rapidly, has remained where it was planted in spite of being occa- 
sionally weeded out, and seems to have quite established itself in one 
or two parts of the garden. Its value as a fodder is very much a 
matter of doubt, piobably much depends on the locality in which 
it is grown. It is not, 1 think, a plant 1 should recommend, on 
account of its persistence, as it might in some places prove a pest 
among other crops. — H. N. RlDEEV. 
PLANTING IN SELANGOR. 
Coffee and Rubber. 
The Anglo-Ceylon and General Estates Company held its 
seventeenth yearly meeting at London on the i6th July with Mr. 
H. K. Rutherford presiding. The working of the Company 
had been unprofitable in the Mauritius owing to the lOw price of 
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