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Patchouli was abundantly shown but many of the samples were 
quite odourless, probably too old. 
A good prize was offered for camphor for the best sample of that of 
Cinnamomum Camphora . Of this, there were several examples of obvi- 
ously purchased camphor, one of which bore still the label of the shop, 
there was also a good sample of Borneo camphor. It was perhaps 
too premature to offer a prize for this new cultivation. In the fruits 
and flowers shed Mr. Eaton staged a camphor still in work with 
samples of camphor, and camphor oil and photographs of trees at 
Kuala Lumpur. 
In the oil and oilcake section, the Singapore Oil Mills easily carried 
off most of the prizes with grand samples of oils and cakes, but other 
exhibitors showed good and poor samples of coconut, castor, citro- 
nella and lemon grass, some of the aromatic oils shown by native dis- 
tillers were very deficient in aroma, and seemed to have mixed with 
other oils. The Para seed cake appeared to be very good with a 
pleasant taste and the characteristic slight bitterness of this oil, 
Kabu-kabu seed ( Eriodendrou anfractuosum) was very largely shown, 
and the samples very even. 
Of the Getahs, jelutong was fairly good and the guttapercha was 
represented by some excellent specimens There were a few collections 
of “ local gutta ” nearly all of which contained rambong probably 
cultivated, getah grip, jelutong, etc. 
An exhibition of models made of guttapercha attracted much 
attention and the carriages, machinery, a swan, cat and dog, and 
very cleverly made figures of natives caused much amusement. 
Damars were of the usual style, the collections being good but 
not exceptional. Dragon’s blood contained a number of good samples. 
The Gambier block and cube was very inferior, only one poor speci- 
men of block, wet and mouldy, and a few samples of lead cubes. 
Chewing gambier for which no prize was scheduled, was better, and 
there were some good samples. 
In the Fibre section there were no first class collections of fibres, 
and the black fibre, (fibre of Areng Saccharifera ) was scantily shown 
and not of its best. 
Tree cotton (Kabu Kabu) was very largely represented and some 
samples were good, and there was some fair specimens of cotton, 
Rotans and bamboos were plentiful and walking sticks extensively 
shown and very variable in form. For medicinal plants, there were 
two classes, one “ open,” presumably for Europeans, for which medals 
were offered, and one for natives, the distinction of the two classes 
were not sufficiently clearly indicated in the schedule. However, all 
the exhibits were sent in by natives, one or two collections being very 
large and carefully named, with native names. 
In this shed was also staged a most instructive and interesting 
exhibit from the PhiJppipines by Mr. Prautch. It (included a very large 
