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SYONAN BOTANICAL GARDENS. 
Monthly Report for December. 2602, 
1. Herharium * 
Che’ Mohamed Nur re-arranged 3451 specimens of the follow- 
ing families: Legurninoaae , Rosaceae, Saxif ragaceae , Crassulaceae , 
Droseraceae, Hamamelidaceae , Rhizophoraceae and C ombre taceae. 
Kiah mounted I69 specimens and dried 37 specimens. 
Five Nipponese officials came to consult the herbarium, 
concerning fibre -plants , chiefly Ramie. 
Dr. Furtado continued his work on Calamus. He revised the 
specific keys of 3 sections and prepared descriptions of 18 
speci es . 
Dr. Furtado conducted 6 Nipponese officials round the 
Gardens, most of them being pharmacists, interested in medicinal 
plants, and one interested in plants yielding perfumes. 
Dr. Furtado also dealt with purchase and distribution of 
rice, sugar and salt to the Gardens employees, with assistance 
from Mr. Abdul Wahab. 
2. Library . 
1026 books were cleaned and 4 books varnished. Dr. 
Furtado re-arranged some books and changed the index cards 
accordingly. 
3 * Labelling of Plants . 
55 new painted labels were made, and 6 sign-boards for 
Bukit Timah Forest Reserve. 45 labels were also re-painted, 
87 aluminium labels were made. 
4. Potting Yard . 
421 plants were potted or re-potted. 549 cuttings were made 
of plants needing propagation, 4 new marcots were made, 2 of 
a new seedling Bougainvillea and 2 of Qambier, which it is 
intended to plant on lawn J. 28 new hanging basket plants were 
prepared, 14 of these being large plants in^large new baskets 
made from terabusu wood cut from tre^s in the Gardens. Seeds 
were sown of Hydnocarpus anthelrnintica (used against leprosy), 
Bentinckia nicobarica (palm) and Cassia didymobotrya (new 
flowering shrub), 527 vegetable seedlings, chiefly Brinjals, 
were re-potted. 158 new plants (including 20 in hanging baskets) 
were sent to the plant-house for display and 40 plants returned 
from plant-house to potting yard for re-po+tlng. The following 
plants were supplied: - 
for Government House - — 1 
'2 
12 
for Marquis Tokugawa - — 2 
5 
for Military purposes 6 
at request of 2 
Mr. Satow 1 
5« Plant House. 
large Platycerium fern 
” Asplenium fern 
” basket plants (6 kinds) 
Asplenium ferns in baskets 
Royal Palms 
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Royal Palms 
Casuarina 
Ravenala (Traveller’s tree) 
332 new flowering plants were arranged for display on the 
