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The “thread blight” fungus was observed on camphor at Batu 
Ti»a previously to its being recorded on Hevea. By pruning the 
affected trees and by santitation of the affected area the disease was 
controlled. 
DISEASES OF CEARA RUBBER. 
Cenospora Cearac, Petch., has been found to produce spots on the 
leaves of Ceara rubber (Manihot Glazovu). 
Future work will be devoted mainly to the completion of the hfe- 
i mpthnrlc; nf treatment of Fomes semitostus , to a further 
history and methods of treatment' i ^ and 
studv of Hymenochaete noxia and of the thread on* 
to investigations on the diseases of the coconut palm in so far as 
occasion is offered. 
It is proposed, as time permits, to indentify the “moulds 
fetich are puTp^se of" for m- 
!„g the nucleus of a mycological herbarium for future reference. 
c. K. BANCROFT, 
\ MoonlAtrict 
Report of the Inspector of Coconut Plantations for the 
Year 1911. 
The area under coconuts in the Federated Malay States at the 
end of 1910 I estimate, approximately, at 130,344 acres, appor lone 
to the four States as follows 
66,088 acres 
28,667 „ 
19,246 ,, 
16,343 M 
Perak 
Selangor ... 
Negri Sembilan 
Pahang 
and I value the whole at $29,000,000. 
Increase -Six thousand five hundred and twenty-nine acres 
were opened up and planted throughout the States during the year. 
„ Mr r F B Pratt was appointed Assistant 
to the Chandn 
Department, and took up his duties on the J.d o. June, 
stationed at Telok Anson. 
Kamarudin bin Haji Sulieman was appointed Sub-Inspector of 
Coconuts, Kuala Lumpur, on 3rd February 
STATE OF PERAK. 
, * -xv State shows an inceease of 2,863 
The area under coconuts in h s St acres were planted by 
acres as compared with I9°9t ot tms ared ’ ’ 4 
Europeans. 
