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boring in the stems ; and a beetle compelled the abandoning of rose cultivation upon 
certain areas in the Government Domain, 
1 he rainfall in Penang was normal in amount and in distribution except for the 
pbeonomenal downpour of December 8th which did great damage in the Waterfall 
Gardens. The year in Penang was a splendid year for flowers; the forests were full 
of blossom in the first half, and afforded unique opportunities, which were taken, of 
collecting in flower trees, chiefly Dipterocarps. A date palm flowered in the grounds 
of a 'mosque in George Town and produced fruits which while infertile were of 
considerable size. The tree is twenty years old. That the date should fruit there is 
notable. 
The rainfall records for the Gardens in both places are to be found in the Gard- 
ens' Bulletin. It is desirable for the better understanding of onr cultures that other 
meteorological records should be kept, and plans are being laid for the keeping of 
them. The Library grows, and is very cramped in the old office. No binding was 
done in 1918. 
The Herbarium work was continued just as in 1917. When the active fighting- 
ended, the opportunity was taken of sending to Kew large numbers of specimens 
required there for the purpose of Mr. H. N. Ridley's Flora of the Peninsula. In all 
1,838 specimens were despatched being: — 
726 to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 
229 to the Forest Department at Kuala Lumpur, 
191 to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta, 
154 to the British Museum, South Kensington, London, 
121 to the Bureau of Science, Manila, 
108 to the University of Cambridge, 
69 to the University of California, 
39 to the Botanic Gardens, Brisbane, 
30 to the Forest Research Institute, Debra Dun. 
The receipts amounted to about 2,300, being 1,650 from the Bureau of Science, 
Manila ; 362 from the Botanic Garden Buitenzorg; nearly one hundred from Profes- 
sor C. F. BAKER; and the considerable balance from the Forest Department, S. S. 
and F. M. S. The Department co lected 1,200 numbers. 
Owing to the want of mounting paper at the end of the year about 6,000 sheets 
awaited mounting. 
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Six different institutions were supplied with samples of timber of determined 
origin. 
Mr. H. N. Dixon continued bis help by naming mosses submitted to him, and 
Miss G. Lister similarly Myxomycetes. Professor P. A. SACCARDO described 67 
new fungi from Singapore, mostly from the Botanic Gardens or near thereto, 
collected by Profess r C. F. Baker, M. N. Patouillard described others. Mr. E. D. 
Merrill described several new Bornean flowering plants from the Gardens’ Collec- 
tions. The Director described two or three Malayan plants from living specimens in 
cultivation in Singa ore or in Penang, and prepared an illustrated paper on the 
seedlings of such Dipterocarps as could be got. A paper upon new Malayan flowering 
plants was issued by Mr. H. N. RlDLEY. 
Three parts of the Gardens’ Bulletin were issued. They contain reports which 
may be grouped thus : — 
(1) on local economic value: — on various races of the radish, lettuce, ton ato, 
bean, soy-bean, pea-nut, yautia, yam, rozelle and cola; 
(2) on cultivation : — “ the control of damping off ” ; 
(3) on insect pest : — Catochr yops pandava on Cycads ; Plesispa reichei and 
Promeco theca cumingii on coco -nuts, a Lema on yams; 
(4) cn fungal pests : — a Host-index to Penzig’s, Saccardo’s and Raciborski’s 
papers on Javanese fungi; 
(5) on Botany: — orchid notes; 
(6) a history of the Gardens to 1888. 
