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THE GARDENS. 
HE Botanical Gardens, Singa- 
pore, situated in the district 
of Tanglin, are about three 
miles from the town. The 
Gardens proper cover an area 
of about 66 acres, of which 
about io acres are original jungle. 
With one or two exceptions, this is the 
only piece of original jungle left on the 
Island. Although it necessarily gives a 
very poor impression of thedense jungles 
in the interior of the Malay Peninsula, it 
does give a visitor some idea of the 
wonderful richness of tropical vegetation. 
Special notice should be taken of the 
banks of ferns, which bound this piece 
of jungle on the side next to Garden 
Road. 
These ferns are locally known by the 
Natives as Resam and botanically as 
Gleichenia dichotoma . 
