t 0 umrSociH a onn 2 ^vv C hi l ( e ^f ted N 5 P , Ur ° range; from the Agri-Horticul- 
ISO races of Canna cnm 1L 1 ias lt; s head quarters in Calcutta, were received 
k ew „ nhnts Z% , '*5*? °* H «hchmn and various other plants; from 
55 Plants were received, both ornamental and economic. 
were 1 :- nUmberS of entries in the Department's “Plants inwards” books 
! D ^“gapore 1,254, referring to 621 plants and 1,067 packets of seed; 
in Penang 108, referring to 523 plants and 92 packets of seed. 
Seed of twenty-seven palms new to the collection has been obtained 
“ UvenSvfve trs A "few “ the < f ard f ns ' where k b ™' for 
growing of this oaL for Am — 5 S 3g ^ a ° CaI uews P a Pe r advocated the 
way the ag-e at which it fruit 01 r ln ^ • seec \ wltil0ut hrst ascertaining in any 
ay tnc age at which it fruits. Experience does not justify advocating it. 
e ie\ing greatly in the value of the Avocado pear for Malava the npmrt 
ment has got plants of five races now, and hopes^o get more 7 P 
11,0 1 ,KJ P lrect ? r j’i Agriculture, Sierra Leone, upon request sent tubers of 
repo y rr t hr“Hausa polato” a ‘1 ^Tt" I" ^ Africa a ’ nd caIled in his 
Indies wLcarTa l^ly * t0 be the Less - Ya ™ of the East 
sucker fof oisf PP il ,e l5la ? dS ’ Up ° n re( E' est - supplied 
stations. ^ w Ilfe (banana) grown in his experiment 
o. A“5*ars t X2T*2g% tar&sxs 
37400 plants in Singapore, and 11,100 in Penang. } 1 * mg 
Dry collections.— Herbarium specimens were gratefully received from th* 
Department (1,052), the Bureau of Scienc e g Manila (882) the B™afic 
Gardens, Buitenzorg (444), His Highness the Prince Bonaparte (nj) p ro 
M SS °A p o' Baker ( ,ou - bein g his sixth century of Malian 3 FumdT 
f r Me n r RS pA 26) ’ ° r ' Lm Boon Keng ' Messrs. C. Boden-Ki oss’ 
J. C. Moulton, G. E. Perry, and F. W. South. obs ' 
The Assistant Director, Major Chipp, collected fungi through Sing* 
pore island and to a small extent elsewhere; the. Director after his ret, urn 
collected the higher plants in a few places e <* Penano- t,, u it i V ctum 
Gemas. Mr. MohImed Hamit Llect’eP upon Twsrt tor 1 '^ 
neighbourhood of Snngei Siput, Perak; ami Major Moulton coflectld for 
the Department upon the Upper Baram river in Sarawak about Lio mil,, -,nd 
on the mountains to the north of it. Dr. Docters van LeeuvvA Director 
of the Botamc Gardens, Buitenzorg, visited the Settlements and collected 
galls which particularly interest him; and this splendid opportunity was taken 
by the Depaitment of submitting to him a further collection of galls 
Major Chipp’s “List of the Fungi of the Malay Peninsula” ( Gardens’ 
Bulletin, 11. pp. 311-418) is a very important publication from the Herbarium 
ihe following herbarium specimens were sent out: 
to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 
to the Botanic Gardens, Buitenzorg 
to Mr. G C. Lloyd (fungi) 
to the Bureau of Science, Manila ... 
to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta 
to the Botanic Gardens, Brisbane 
and lesser numbers to Miss G. Lister, Messrs. N. Patouillard' 
E. Cheel, W. Hales J. R. Weir, H. N. Dixon, :J. Groves,’ 
M. Persin, and the Department of Agriculture, Pretoria 
696 
279 
261 
255 
125 
107 
220 
Total 
>943 
