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There may 'too be .other species in the Peninsula used for this 
product. At the last agricultural exhibition there ' were two 
forms of the product shown from Negri Sembilan, one in powder 
and one in lump. These seemed to be different in color though 
it is not so easy to compare the lump and powder in point of 
coloring. Furthermore, besides the fruits of D. micr acanthus 
which were shown with one sample, there were oblong very 
dark-colored fruits in a long spray certainly belonging 
neither to D.. micr acanthus nor D. propinquus, nor D. didymophyllus. 
I was unfortunately unable to secure a specimen, and should 
be very glad if anyone residing in these districts could get 
specimens of the flowers, fruit, leaf and stem of this handsome 
species. 
H. N. Ridley. 
THE AGRICULTURAL EXHIBITION. 
The Annual Joint Exhibition of the Colony and Federated 
Malay States, will be held in Singapore in August this year. 
Exhibits of the produce and art of the Peninsula from Singapore 
toThe Isthmus of Kra will be received. Reductions in the price 
of fares and of the freight of exhibits are promise by the Straits 
Steamship Company and the Federated Malay States Railways 
and the Singapore-Kranji Railway. The show will be held on 
the Reclamation Ground opposite "the Raffles Hotel in Singaporein 
the first fortnight of August. His Excellency Sir John Anderson 
offers a cup for the best exhibit of agricultural produce as on 
previous occasions, and several other cups are promised as prizes. 
The exhibition promises to be as fine a one as that of last year. 
An account of the first public meeting held in Singapore is 
appended. 
THIRD JOINT ANNUAL 
AGRI-HORTICULTURAL SHOW OF 1906. 
A General Public Meeting held in Council Chambers at 
4-45 p.m. on January 18th, Hon. John Anderson, presided. 
A General Public Meeting was held at the Council Chambers 
at 4-45 p.m. to-day (January 18th, 1906) for the purpose of 
discussing an “ Agri-Horticultural Show ” to be held in Singapore 
this year. The Hon. John Anderson, presided, and there were 
also present: — Rev. N, J. Couvreur, Rev. G. Gex, Hon. E. L. 
Brockman, Hon. Tan Jiak Kim, Messrs. W. G. St. Clair, 
H. N. Ridley, A. Knight, J. Polglase, Khory, Symonds, 
Tomlinson, Tan Kheam Hock, R. Little, E. F. H. Edlin, 
N. Trotter, St. V. B. Down, Weare, and others. 
The Hon. J. Anderson, Chairman, said that he was not 
present there that day owing to any special knowledge he 
possessed for promoting Agricultural Shows, but to the appeal 
