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SUPPLEMENT 
TO THE 
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS 
Government Gazette. 
FRIDAY, 30th MARCH, 1894. 
REPORT ON THE GARDENS AND FORESTS DEPARTMENT, 
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS. 
BOTANIC GARDENS, SINGAPORE. 
Staff. 
1. In the early part of the year, the Mandor, ANIFF, resigned his appointment 
and T. C. PEREIRA replaced him. The coolies worked well throughout the year, but 
there was a good deal of sickness, mostly of a mild type, among them. I here were 
two or three cases of injury from poisonous trees or fruits, the dangerous plants being 
Melanorrhcea, Hippomane Mancinella (the ManchineeJ), and Kentia MacArthurn ; 
and one man was much hurt by a deer which attacked him while feeding it. 
Visitors. 
2. The number of visitors to the Gardens was as large as usual, and included 
many Kuropean botanists of note, on their way to Java to make botanical researches, 
several of whom expressed regret that there was no laboratory accommodation in the 
Botanic Gardens, as, in many respects, Singapore was better suited for the carrying on 
of research than Java. 
The Regimental Band performed once or twice a month on Friday afternoons in 
the Gardens, and attracted many visitors. 
A viaries. 
3. The zoological collection proved as attractive as in former years, and several 
interesting animals and birds were added to it. Among these were: — A mias (pur- 
chased) ; six common monkevs (presented by Mr. Machado) ; a golden cat (Felis 
Temminckii, presented by Mr. Mousley) ; a black bear (female, purchased) ; an 
Australian dingo (presented by Captain PlTTS) ; a black buck (presented by the 2nd 
Battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment) ; one rusa (female, Cervus equinus) ; one 
American deer (presented by Captain Davies); two bamboo rats ( Rhisomvs, pre- 
sented by Mr. GOODHART) ; two Raffles' squirrels (purchased) ; two common squirrels 
(caught) ; one emu (presented by Captain TalbOYS) ; one purple coot (presented by 
Mr. Machado ) ; two Malacca swamp tortoises f Cestudo Amhoinenvis, captured) ; one 
monitor (Hydrosaurus salvator, presented). Two hamadryads (Ophiophagus claps') 
and several other snakes were captured in the Gardens. 
A common monkey was born in the aviary on the 27th of March. The teal on 
the lake also hatched out a brood of ten ducklings, which were unfortunately all 
destroyed by hawks or eagles. 
New and Rare Plants, 
The following plants, seldom or never before flowered in Singapore, flowered 
this year: — Brassia can data ; Aspasia variegata ; Cattleya Schroderce ; C. Bowrin- 
giana ; Oncidfum ceholleta ; O. roraimense ; O. lundum ; Mormodt>s pardinum ; 
Lycaste aromatica major; Miltonia spectabilis ; Laelia harpofihvtla ; Stanhopea 
grandiflora ; S. eburnea ; Catasetum tridentatum (from South America and the 
West Indies) ; Dendrobium sanguinolentum and var. cerinum (from Kedah Peak) ; 
antennatum (New Guinea); D. hymenopterum (Kedah Peak): Cymhidlum 
lancifoUum (Malacca); Sarcanthus castaneus { Singapore); Vanda , Mi^s Joaquim 
( a hyhrid between V. teres and V. Hookeriana) ; Cleisostoma eras sun (Borneo); 
Sacco! ahinm calceotare ( Borneo) ; Rhododendron Brookei ( Borneo ) : Aristolockia 
gigas Sturtevanti (Trinidad) ; Didymocarpus citrinus (Kedah Peak 1 ; Sonerila, 
a new species with tuberous rhizomes ( Kedah Peak ); and another la rge-bj-anched 
species from T egeh, which was presented by Mr. A. MACHADO, together with a very 
fine flame-coloured D dymocarpus, a new genus of Commelinaceee , near Pollia, and 
Lodon acanthus sp., all from the same locality; Trevesia eminens (Philippines); 
Rntada folvstachya ; Hedychium longicornutum (Malacca); Clerodendron mina- 
hassce ( Celebes ). 
Among the ornamental foliage plants and ferns, the most remarkable species 
received were:— A selenium scandens (Borneo, presented by Bishop Hose ); A. sp. 
! Pern 1 ). / eranopferis carnosa, Bl. (Malacca); Adiantum, nsp. (Singapore); 
Nephclaphvllurn tenuiflorum ( Kedah ) ; Cyrtandra, sp, ( Borneo, presented by Mr. 
St. V. B, Down. 
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