323 
Extract from a monthly report (January) by the 
District Officer, Kwala Selangor, 1900. 
AN ABNORMAL COCONUT. 
At Assam Java, Kvvala 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 lias 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 FROM 
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. 
— 
a5 ! 
5 ■ 
X 
0 
ai 
V 
!— ■ 
Area of 
reserves. 
Area of un- 
reserved 
forest. 
Percentage of 
reserve of the 
whole area. 
Perak 
7.325 
21 7-5 
- 
2.2 
Pahang 
Selangor 
Negri Sembilan 
14.000 
3,200 
2,500 
93 7 
2.4 
••• 
2.9 
.096 
27,025 
3 * 3-6 
1 - 
*-3 
The percentage for the Federated Malay States is therefore only 
1.3 of the whole area, a very small one. 
