It will perhaps be well to explain here that this so-called bath is 
really the Garden reservoir, which supplies the plant sheds and 
nurseries with water through one-inch iron pipes, and that since the 
club swimming bath started at Tanjong Bungah the Garden bath 
has fallen into almost entire disuse. The reservoir is essentially 
necessary and must be maintained, but the Garden funds would not 
stand the cost of renewing the dilapidated buildings (dressing-rooms, 
etc.,) which were so very occasionally used and the opportunity was 
therefore taken to utilize the ravine for the purpose stated. When 
completed (considering the richness of Aroids in the Malayan flora) 
a most interesting and valuable collection of these plants will be 
permanently established for study or enjoyment in a cool retreat. 
Several species of epiphytic Aroids already abound on trees growing 
in the ravine ; others have been planted. In building the rockery, 
the bed of the stream has been contoured so as to form a feature of 
the work. Of the Aroids planted which include duplicates of all 
our Anthuriums, Alocasias, Amorphophallus, Spathiphyllum, 
Dieffenbachia, Schismatoglottis, Homalomena, Aglaonema, Philo- 
dendron, Pothos, Schizocasia and Caladiums all have grown well. 
At the time of writing the plants of Spathiphyllum cannsefolium 
furnish a nice display of white flower-spathes which are deliciously 
fragrant in the mornings and evenings. A little time must elapse 
before the Anthuriums represent their best ; but those specimens 
which have flowered exhibit more perfect and better coloured 
spathes under the natural shade than is ever obtained with pot- plants 
under artificial shade. 
Aquatic Aroids and the “Keladi” or Colocasias and Xanthosomas 
are not yet provided for. 
Upkeep and Buildings. 
11. The dam across the reservoir was found to be leaky. The 
faces have been re-cemented and a new hardwood water gate 
provided. The reservoir has also been thoroughly cleaned and the 
accumulated wash-sand removed. 
The bertam chicks on the iron or No. I plant house have been 
entirely renewed. Many of the posts and beams of No. 3 plant 
house have been renewed and painted, and the whole roof renewed 
with split nibongs. 
The circular drive from the Aroid ravine as far as the Band-stand 
or a distance of 200 yards has been re-metalled with 3 inches of 
granite by the Public Works Department. The same department 
has also renewed the two rustic bridges crossing the stream near 
the fern rockery. 
Library and Herbarium. 
12. For the former the usual periodicals have been purchased or 
received from other Botanical and Agricultural Establishments. 
Mr. Wright’s Cantor lecture on Para Rubber was purchased, and 
Volume IX, Part II of the Annals of Calcutta Botanic Garden, 
