XII. LIBRARY 
19. The library has remained in very cramped and unsatisfactory 
accommodation. This has curtailed or completely frustrated certain aspects 
of the Gardens proper functioning. This is the tenth annual report in 
succession in which the totally improper provision for library accommodation 
has been recorded. This deplorable situation becomes worse each year as 
new literature is acquired, and for long it has been very difficult, even 
impossible to locate the whereabouts of certain specific items of literature. 
Books deteriorate under such congestion of storage, and the collection of 
literature that is without equal in Asia for its research value is in danger of 
losing in utility. A library building is entered in Development Estimates 
1966/67, but this is a need foreseen in 1952 for execution in 1957, and is 
very long overdue. It is not yet known whether this item of development will 
eventually gain sanction and be constructed. 
20. The library accession register showed 8,875 bound volumes in the 
collection. Binding is very much in arrears owing to lack of funds. The price 
of books and periodicals continues to rise each year and it is proving very 
difficult to purchase the requisite literature necessary for our work. Exchange 
agreements exist with 290 addresses for our Gardens' Bulletin, Singapore. 
XIII. PUBLICATIONS 
21. Flora of Malaya, vol. 1, Orchids, 3rd Edition was published 
incorporating amendments by the author. It is unfortunately not possible to 
record any progress with volume 2, Ferns, and volume 3, Grasses, referred to 
in the Report for 1964. 
22. The parts of Gardens’ Bulletin, volume 21 were brought out with the 
following papers: 
Part J. Corner, E. J. H.: Checklist of Ficus in Asia and Australasia. 
Part 2. Allen, B. M.: Malayan Fern Notes. 
Chew, W-L.: Laportea and allied Genera (Urticaceae). 
Gilliland, H. B.: Further notes on the Grasses of the Malay Peninsula,, 
II. 
Keng, Hsuan: Report on an abnormal ovulate strobilus of Gnetum 
gnemon, L. 
Munir, Ahmad abid: A revision of Petraeovitex (Verbenaceae). 
23. Mr. A. G. Alphonso, Curator, published a paper on ‘Cymbidium 
roseum’ in the Malayan Orchid Review, 8 (2), December 1965, and 
Mr. Alphonso and Mr. Bajuri regularly supplied new hybrid descriptions for 
publication in this periodical. 
24. The revenue from the sale of publications prepared by the Depart- 
ment and published by Government amounted to $9,408. 
25. It is with much satisfaction that it is possible to record action 
towards reprinting A Dictionary of the Economic Products of the Malay 
Peninsula by the late I. H. Burkill, Director of Botanic Gardens, Straits 
Settlements, 1912-25. This work became unobtainable in 1948 except at an 
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