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Monthly Reioort for August, 2602 . 
1. HerhariuTiL 
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Ghe* Mohamed 3?!nr re-arranged about 2600 sheets of the families , 
Meliaceae, Ghailletiacese, Olacirieae, Rhamnaceae and Ami^elidaceae, 
He also placed 92 newly mounted specimens in their proper places in 
the herbarium. Kiah mounted 218 specimens, and dried a number of 
others, chiefly cultivated plants, Che^ Mohamed Hur inspected several 
more cases of Mr, Carres New Guinea collections and put in napthalene, 
to keep away insects, as w'e have no more methylated spirit wmth which 
to poison the specimens in the usual way. Dr. Purtado named a number 
of plant specimens for Japanese officers, in one case transliterating 
over 100 botanical names into ICatakana. 
A Japanese officer interested in the genus Lasianthus spent some 
time stud«ying specimens in the herbarium. 
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2, Library . ■ ' 
Baud continued his routine cleaning and varnishing of books; 
976 books were cleaned. Mr. Abdul Wahab devoted his spare tim,e to 
preparing a full list of all periodicals in the library (with full 
titles, years of publication etc.,). 
3. Indexing, mapping and labelling; of plants . 
Work on mapping Lawn 0 and checking all index cards relating to 
1)1 ants on this lawn was completed, and several plants were named and 
labelled which had previously not been named. Work wsb then begun 
on the palms in Lawn K. Dr. Furtado corrected the names of several 
palms on Lawn W. Mr. Holttum spent some time naming and labelling ' 
trees on Lawn Z which had lost their labels ov/irig to occupation of that 
area by troops, digging and re-filling of trenches etc.'; nearly all 
trees were named and labelled. The label printers made 80 new painted 
v/ooden labels, as well as a number of standard aluminium labels, and 
small labels for the vegetable gardens, orchids etc. They also painted 
sign boards in Japanese characters for the Tyersall and Dalvey Gates 
to the Gardens. 
4. Potting Yard . 
601 plants were re-potted. 857 cuttings \yere planted, chiefly 
of plants difficult to propagate, of which stoiks are small. 7 marcots 
were made of two interesting trees, ea<5h of which is rex)resented by 
only one plant in the Gardens. 172 aroids, Dracaenas, Begonias etc, 
were sent from the potting yard to the plant house. A considerable 
number of vegetable seeds were planted, and the seedlings handed oyer 
to the men in charge of vegetable gardens. Seeds were also planted of 
two Interesting palms (Livistona Woodfordii and Goleospadix oninensis), 
of the best Ixora hybrid, of a tree Cotton, and of* Dysoxylum cauli- 
florum (an interesting local tree of which there are no plants in the 
public part of the Gardens). Song Soo, the Chinese gardener in charge 
of foliage plan+'s, made burnt earth for his own use. 24l plants in 
pots, l60 water lily plants, 300 Zeph^^ranths bulbs and U clumps of 
palms ?/ere supplied for +he Bukit Timah Shrine. 
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5. Plant House . i 
The collection of potted plants was maintained as usual. About 
70 flowering orchids were taken to the orchid house during the month 
and a similar number which had finished flowering returned to the 
nursery. 364 pots of flowering x^lants were taken to the plant house 
steps and 264 old ones removed. 
6. Orchids. 
Mr. Livingston continued to deal with the orchid seedlings in 
