27. The following hybrid families were registered: 
BGS. 3512 — Aranda Adam Malik (Arachnis Maggie Oei x Aranda 
Grandeur) named after the Indonesian Minister for 
Foreign Affairs on the occasion of his visit to the Botanic 
Gardens on 19th March, 1968. 
BGS. 2817 — Dendrobium Khin Mae Than ( D . Gillian x D. gouldii var. 
sal pan) named after Madam Ne Win, wife of H. E. 
General Ne Win, Chairman of the Revolutionary Council 
of the Union of Burma on the occasion of her visit to 
the Botanic Gardens on 21st April, 1968. 
BGS. 3613 — Holttumara Indira Gandhi (Aranthera Anne Black x Vanda 
dearei) named after the Prime Minister of India on the 
occasion of her visit to the Botanic Gardens on 20th 
May, 1968. 
BGS. 3753 — Dendrobium Ismail ibni Ibrahim ( D . Syaj x D. Noor Aishah) 
named after H. H. The Sultan of Johore. 
BGS. 2188 — Vanda Berjaya (V. sumatrana x V. lamellata var. boxallii). 
BGS. 3182 — Vanda Tan Be Gnoh (V. Manisaki x V. tesselata). 
BGS. 3590 — Aranda Chia Shui Mae ( Arachnis hookeriana var. luteola 
x V. Muthiya). 
Awards of Merit (Orchid Society of S.E. Asia) were given to Arachnis 
Capama ‘Merah’ and to Arachnis Capama ‘Puteh\ 
28. In order to avoid duplication of work, an arrangement was made 
with the Primary Production Department in connection with its work of 
providing orchid planting materials for raising cut flowers by market 
gardeners. The main hybridising programme would continue but facilities 
were promised for the work of that Department’s geneticist to undertake 
crossing, obtain cytological materials and have access to all the Gardens’ 
breeding records. In order to give the P.P.D. a start on multiplying material 
of cut-flower potential, the Botanic Gardens withdrew from public sales all 
materials considered to have such potential and now passes one half of all 
seedlings of such crosses over to the P.P.D. The remaining balance, while 
being an integral part of the Gardens gene-stock, remains under observation 
for large scale commercial potentialities. The Gardens also provided 200 
cuttings of selected hybrids to be added to the P.P.D.’s nucleus of multiplica- 
tion materials. While this work is still at an early stage, accelerated large 
scale vegetative propagation methods must be introduced, and approval has 
been obtained for a botanical officer of the Gardens to go to the University 
of Hawaii to study meristem culture. Mr. Hardial Singh, Botanist, has been 
selected for this course which is likely to begin in the latter part of 1969. 
Meanwhile he has been assigned to the Orchid Section to initiate investigations 
on mass vegetative propagation of orchids. Work was conducted on hybrids 
of Arachnis, Vanda and Renanthera, and is being continued. 
XI. LIBRARY 
29. The need for a proper library building was felt as far back as 
1952, but work on it only commenced in early 1968, with the building of a 
wing to the Herbarium in which one floor level has been designed for the 
library. The wing was handed over for use on 5th September. Because funds 
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