SyONAN BOTANICAL GARDENS. 
Monthly Report for August, 2602 . 
1. Herharium . 
Che* Mohamed Nur re-arranged about 2600 sheets of the families 
Meliaceae, Ghailletiaceae, Olacineae, Rhamnaceae and Ampelidaceae. 
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. Ohe* Mohamed Nur inspected several 
more cases of Mr. Carr’s New Guinea collections and put in napthalene, 
to keep away insects, as we have no more methylated spirit with which 
to poison the specimens in the usual way. Dr. Purtado named e number 
of plant specimens for Japanese officers, in one case transliterating 
over 100 botanical names into Katakana. 
A Japanese officer interested in the genus Lasianthus spent some 
time studying specimens in the herbarium. 
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2. Library . 
Daud continued his routine cleaning and varnishing of books; 
976 books were cleaned. Mr. Abdul Wahab devoted his spare time 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 
plants on this lawn was completed, and several plants were named and 
labelled which had previously not been naraed. Work was then begun 
on the palms in Lawn K. Dr. Purtado corrected the names of several 
palms on Lawn W. Mr. Holt turn sp^nt some time naming and labelling 
trees on Lawn Z which had lost their labels owing to occupation of that 
area by troops, digging and rci-filling of trenches etc.; nearly all 
trees were named and labelled. The label printers made 80 new painted 
wooden 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 Japaiiese characters for the Tyersall and Dalvey Gates 
to the Gardens. 
4. Potting Yard . 
601 plants were re-potted. 857 cuttings were planted, chiefly 
of plants difficult to propagate, of which stocks are small. 7 marcots 
were made of two intei’esting trees, each of which is represented 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 over 
to the men in charge of vegetable gardens. Seeds were also planted of 
two interesting palms (Livistona Woodfordil and Coleospadix oninensis), 
of the best Ixora hybrid, of a tx-ee Cotton, and of Dysoxylum cauli- 
florum (an interesting local tree of whiph there are no plants in the 
public part of the Gardens). Song 3oo, the Chinese gardener in ct^rge 
of foliage plants, made burnt earth for his own use, 241 plants in 
pots, 160 water lily plants, 300 Zephyranths bulbs and 4 clumps of 
palms were supplied for the Bukit Tlrnah Shrine. 
5 . Plant House . 
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 nuvaber which had finished flowering returned to the 
nursery, 364 pots of flowering plants were taken to the plant house 
steps and 264 old ones removed. 
6. Orchids. 
Mr. Livingston continued to deal with the orchid seedlings in 
