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varieties of Hippeastrura; (3) a complete collection of Gannas, which 
it is hoped to keep free from disease; (4) special varieties of 
Hibiscus and other ornamental shrubs for which there is now no room 
in the nursery. 
9 . Dr. gurtado^s Botanical Work . 
Dr. Purtado’s time was much .taken up with rice peimits, purchases 
and distribution; also with police registration, which occupied 3 
days. Dr, Purtado continued his study of the genus Calamus, and by 
the end of the month had almost completed the sorting into species of 
the whole herbarium collections of the genus, aona 60-70 species, of 
which 12-15 are new. He will now proceed to the work of preparing 
descriptions of all of them. 
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Hr. Holttum*8 Botanical Work . 
As noted above, Mr, Holt turn devoted some time to naming trees 
on Lawn Z which had lost their labels (in a few cases old trees had 
never been labelled). He also attended to descriptions of orchid 
flowers as required. He devoted the afternoons chiefly to a conti- 
nuation of his work on Malayan ferns, and completed a survey of the 
genus Tectaria, preparing descriptions of 20 species, which include 
a number of coramon terrestrial forest ferns. He intends to continue 
with the few remaining genera of the Dryopteris group, v/hich Is by 
far the largest group of terrestrial ferns in Malaya. 
