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The road from Garden Road to the officers’ quarters was 
remetalled with three inches of laterite, gravelled and consolidated 
for 200 yards and 15 feet in width, and regravelled for 97 yards. 
The main drive from the office to the band-stand, which is 
steep and had scoured, was patched to a considerable extent. 
The Garden road of a length of nearly five hundred yards, 
running from Tyersall Road to Dalvey Road, was remetalled by 
the Public Works Department. 
Drains and Ciilverts. 
5. — A mason and coolie were employed neatly the whole year 
in patching and renewing urgently needed work. Two small drains 
with cemented catchpits were made across the road between the 
plant houses and godown. The side drains from terrace steps 
towards th§ old aviary for 75 yards length and 6-7 inches wide 
were renewed. 
The side drains along the four-foot path from the main 
entrance to the old aviary were patched and repaired. The side 
drain from the main entrance along the drive for 295 yards was 
renewed. The large culvert near *the officers’ quarters was 
lengthened and a new catchpit made. The cement paths in the 
plant-house and sheds were repaired and as much of the old aviary 
demolished as' time allowed, the bricks being used for repairs. 
The unsightly culverts on the band-stand paths have been renewed 
and lowered so- as to admit of a regular even path, and at the same 
time the side drains on both sides of the path for 40 yards on 
each side 'were renewed. The drain on one side of the main 
drive from the plant-house s^ps to' the bend- stand has been 
deepened and renewed for a distance of 90 yards. 
New or Noteworthy Plants. 1 
6. — Among the more interesting novelties which flowered 
during the year were:- — 
Malayan : — Didymocarpus perdita. — (Pulau Battam). 
Vanda kastifera. — (Borneo). 
A eschynanthus tricolor. — (Borneo). 
Aeschynantkus Lobbiana var? — (Borneo). 
Habenaria xanthocheila . — (Penan g) , 
Gastvochilus pulchellus n. sp. — (Borneo). 
* Glabba bvachy anthem. — (Borneo). 
C U rodendvon n . sp. — ( Borneo) . 
Begonia obbngifalia.—( Borneo) . 
Begonia promethea, — (Borneo). 
Pepevomia n. sp. — (Borneo). 
Hapaline appendiculata n. sp. — (Borneo). 
Schismato glottis brevipes. — (Perak). 
