XXI. LOANS OF HERBARIUM MATERIAL 
44. In anticipation of all collections being more or less inaccessible 
during the storage period, major collaborators were approached regarding 
their forthcoming loan requirements, and as a result an unusually large 
quantity of specimens was shipped to Leiden for Flora Malesiana workers, 
and also large consignments were made to The University of Malaya and 
the Commonwealth Forestry Institute at Oxford University. Material re- 
ceived on loan was mainly of Myristicaceae for Mr. Sinclair and of Urticaceae 
for Dr. Chew. 
XXII. TAXONOMY 
45. Mr. J. Sinclair continued his work on malesian Myristicaceae 
(Nutmeg family) and the grater part of the year was spent on preparing a 
second draft of the revision of the genus Myristica. Progress was seriously 
interrupted by not having the herbarium to work in. New collections from 
North Borneo, Sarawak, New Guinea and the Solomon Islands provided 
useful additional data. 
46. Dr. Chew Wee-Lek, on return from the Royal Society Kinabalu 
Expedition took leave for 2\ months and assisted by a Royal Society and 
Nuffied Foundation grant was enabled to make a study of the herbaria of the 
British Museum, London, Kew, Cambridge, Leiden, Utrecht, Geneva and 
Paris. These facilities will enable him to prepare a world monograph on 
some of the genera of the Urticaceae. Without this assistance his project 
could never be attempted solely on the amenities of literature and collections 
available in Singapore. 
47. Mr. Hardial Singh collected Araceae and made preparations for 
anatomical study. Miss Chang continued her studies of the fungal order 
Agaricales while on a U.K. Government award held at Cambridge University, 
and Mr. Burkill, when administrative demands permitted, followed his study 
of marine algae. 
48. Mr. Munir abid Chaudhury, on a Singapore Government Colombo 
Plan Senior Fellowship to study botanical taxonomy, undertook a revision 
of the genus Petraeovitex (Verbenaceae), and prepared a paper for publica- 
tion in The Gardens’ Bulletin , Singapore. He then began a revision of the 
closely related genera Congea and Symphorema. 
49. Dr. Furtado, though in retirement, has continued to work in the 
Department, and has given valuable assistance on nomenclatural procedures 
and in the preparation of latin diagnoses. While at the University of Singa- 
pore, in collaboration with the Botanic Gardens, and mainly dependent on the 
facilities of the Gardens’ herbarium and library, the late Professor H. B. 
Gilliland completed a flora of Grasses of Malaya which has been accepted 
for publication as Volume 3 of the revised Flora of Malaya. Also at the 
University Dr. Hsuan Keng has continued his revision of Labiatae and Dr. 
Anne Johnson has prepared a revision of the moss family Leucobryaceae, 
which has been published in The Gardens’ Bulletin, Singapore. Both these 
works have been based mainly on material in the Singapore herbarium or 
sent on loan from other institutions through the herbarium. 
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