7 
39. To avoid such shading a tower is being erected so that instruments 
will be placed beyond extraneous interference. It will also be used for obtain- 
ing other data which may have a bearing on plant physiology. 
BOTANICAL RESEARCH 
XV. COLLECTING AND NEW RECORDS 
40. Many single day collecting trips were made into the Nature Re- 
serves and countryside on Singapore Island and into the forests and country- 
side of South Johore. These yielded much useful and valuable material, but 
the bulk of the collecting work was done on the following expeditions : 
J. Sinclair 
West Java ... 
21/2-3/3 
96 
nos. 
J. Sinclair 
Ceylon (while proceeding to Europe 
on leave) 
5-6/4 
36 
nos. 
Mohd. Shah bin Haji Md. 
Nur and Kadim bin Tas- 
sim 
Kerilla Estate, Temangan, Kelantan 
28/2-9/3 
132 
nos. 
Kadim bin Tassim and 
Mahmud bin Awang ... 
Sungei Mai Estate, Pahang 
26/3-1/4 
113 
nos. 
H. M. Burkill, Kadim bin 
Tassim and Md. Noor 
bin Jumaat ... 
Kuala Sedili New Road, Johore ... 
21-29/6 
194 
nos. 
H. M. Burkill, Kadim bin 
Tassim and Md. Noor 
bin Jumaat ... 
Endau Development Project, Johore 
13-24/7 
205 
nos. 
Mrs. B. E. Allen and 
Kadim bin Tassim 
Ipoh District, Perak ... 
9-17/8 
75 
nos. 
H. M. Burkill, Md. Shah 
bin Hj. Md. Nur and 
Md. Noor bin Jumaat ... 
Fraser’s Hill, Pahang /Selangor 
boundary 
24-30/8 
298 
nos. 
H. M. Burkill, Md. Shah 
bin Hj. Md. Nur and 
Md. Noor bin Jumaat ... 
Kuala Sedili New Road, Johore ... 
21-28/9 
118 
nos. 
A. G. Alphonso 
Crocker Range, N. Borneo Bau, 
Sarawak 
14/11-3/12 
87 
nos. 
Miss Chang Kiaw Lan ... 
Kuala Sedili New Road, Johore ... 
22-27/9 
50 
nos. 
E. C. Abbe, L. Abbe and 
Kadim bin Tassim 
Malaya (all States except Kelantan 
and Trengganu) 
2-12/11 
100 
nos. 
J. Carrick, I. Enoch and 
Kadim bin Tassim 
Bako National Park, Sarawak ... 
18/4-11/5 
600 
nos. 
H. M. Burkill, Hassan bin 
Rani, Kadim bin Tassim 
Chemara Research Station. Layang- 
layang, Johore 
23/1-2/2 
129 
nos. 
41. Mr. Sinclair’s expedition to West Java took him to a game reserve 
on Pulau Handeuleum Sisi and P. Peutjang where the indigenous vegetation 
and representatives of large wild game still exist under protection. The islands 
are mostly coral beaches which have risen just above sea level and one can 
see much of the coral, now a greenish hue due to algae and age, amongst the 
tree roots. Lagoon formation typical of atoll islands is absent. On P. Peutjang 
the following tall trees were common: Tetrameles nudiflora, 120 ft.; Ficus 
pubinervis and F. calaphylla, 100 ft.; Ptervgota horsfieldii 40-100 ft., 
Lagerstroemia speciosa, 70 ft. Smaller trees were Radermachera gigantea, 
Pterospermum javanicum, Ardisia lanceolata, with Sophora tomentosa and 
Messer schmidia argent ea frequent on the foreshore. 
