No. 5.] 
[VOL. VI. 
MAY, 1907. 
AGRICULTURAL BULLETIN 
OF THE 
STRAITS 
AND 
FEDERATED MALAY STATES. 
EDITED BY 
H. N. RIDLEY, m.a., F.R.S., f.l.s., f.r.h.s. 
Director of Botanic Gardens , S. S. 
AND 
J. B. CARRUTHERS, f.r. s. E., f.l.s., 
Director of Agriculture & Government Botanist, F, M . S, 
CONTENTS. 
1. African Rubber-Vines— by H. N. Ridley ... ... ... 125 
2. Funtumia Elastic'a Flowering in Johore — By H. N. Ridley ... ... 127 
3. Le Caoutchouc en Indo-Chine— By H. N. Ridley ... ... 127 
4. Malay Drugs — Fruiting of the Frangipani (Plumiera) — By Ii. N. Ridley 128 
5. Bibliography — By H. N. Ridley ... ... ... ... 128 
6 . The Oil-grasses — By H. N. Ridley ... ... ... ... 129 
7. Cyanogenesis In Plants — By H. N. Ridley ... ... ... 131 
8. Vitality of Para Rubber— By H. N. Ridley «... ... ... 132 
9. Rubber — (Times of Malaya) ... ... ... .132 
10. Gathering Capsules of Para Rubber — By G. Welman ... ... 134 
11. System of Laying out Estates in 10-Acre Block — By W. R. Rowland ... 135 
12. Transmission of Rubber Seeds — Chengei Damar — By H. N. R. ... 138 
13. Poisonous Beans — Rubber in New Guinea— By H. N. R. t ... 139 
14. Fruiting of Crinum Northianum — By H. N. R. ... ... ... 135 
15. Lewis & Peat’s Ceylon, Straits & M. States Plantn. Rubber Report 140, 147 & 150 
1 6. India Rubber Market Report — Gow, Wilson & Stanton, Ltd. [41 & 145 
17. Weather Reports ... ... ... 152 
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