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in g. At the end of the year the plants showed no signs of 
seeding. . 
Tephrosia purpurea. — The remarks referring to le- 
phrosia Candida may also be said to apply to this plant in 
every detail. The only difference noticeable so far, is that 
within three months of sowing the plants of this species 
flowered and carried a fair crop of seed. 
In this wav the former plant possesses an advantage 
over the latter* as the longer the fruiting season of green 
manure or cover plant is delayed, the better suited is the 
plant for its purpose. 
Passiflora fcetida. — Several experiments with this 
plant, which has the reputation of being able to kill out 
laiang, have been commenced during the year. 
In Batu Tiga a field of old laiang was taken up and 
rentices six feet wide were cut through, changkolled, and 
planted with passiflora, six feet of laiang was left between 
each rentice. It is hoped that the passiflora will be able to 
eventually smother down the laiang. Records of progress 
in this direction are being kept. 
Early in the year a plot of one acre of hilly laiang land 
was changkolled over and planted with passiflora about two 
feet apart every way, the plants all struck and appeared 
quite healthy, but subsequent growth was very slow, and 
the result, on the whole, disappointing; at the end of the 
nine months the ground was not nearly covered. Another 
acre was tried on clean hilly land with a view of testing its 
suitability for preventing weeds and stopping wash in rainy 
weather. In this case also the plants made poor progress. 
My experience of this plant is that on lowlymg land, 
continually moist, it make rapid progress, but that in places 
where the ground is at all hard and it is subjected to 
occasional period of drought, its growth is so slow that it is 
not worth while planting it, especially when subjects like 
erotalaria or tephrosia (the latter for preference) are avail- 
Plots of various peas, bought from Tamil kedais, were 
also tried for green manure purposes, but results were not 
satisfactory, chiefly owing to the seed being too old and 
having lost its germinating power. 
Abrus precatorius. — Still another cover plant which 
lias been under observation during the year is Abrus pre- 
catorius (crabs-eye), a leguminous plant of prostrate or 
climbing habit, the plant lies close to the ground when there 
is no support, but quickly climbs over any support it comes 
in contact with. In structure the leaves somewhat re- 
