SYONAN BOTANICAL GARDENS 
Monthly report for February 2605 
A) Dr. FURTADO f e RLDORT 
1, Administrative ^ Technic a l Staff : Dr, FURTADO continued to be the chief 
administrative and technical assistant, and Mr* .UAN AH GUN, the Syoki-Syunin 
of the Department. 
. , ir. '■ . a, f fAXIAMAWM | rad Kr* B NAMI8 wet* 
sick from influenza and malaria, 
Che JURaIMI was down with muraps, 
2. Herbarium : Che, NUR rearranged 2320 specimens belongin to the plant fami- 
lies jfuncaceae, Pandunaceae , and Araceae. 
Che, KlAH collected a number of seeds of different kinds of economic pla ts 
and prepared them in packets for the purpose of distributing them to the mili- 
tary and other public. He also went round to collect specimens of some ferns. 
Citrus hystriftf lLiiaau Purut), Lay slum domes ticura (Duku & Langset), and a, ecimens 
of some species ®f Lrythrina now flowering in by o nan. 
Over 115 specimens were identified for the Nipponese officers, most. of 
them were medicinal or poisonous plants. Information concerning them ami 
other plants was su^pl^ed. 
3* Library : Mr, B0NAMIS cleaned and inspected the books as usual. He also 
typed for military visitors to the library over 40 pages of information con- 
cerning the uses, history, analyses, etc of some medicinal plants, 
4* Plant and Seed Distribution ; Over 200 packets of vegetable seeds were dis- 
tributed to Nipponese visitors, most of the seeds being of kitchen vegetables 
like Basella, Talinura, Bayara, Erechtites, Celosla, Saw! , Tiraon and Kundor, in 
some cases cuttings of Tapioca, Sweet-Potatoes and Chekur Mania were given. 
Of medicinal plants seeds of Andrographis panlculata . Datura rnetel and cuttlr. 
of Tinosporo and Orthosiphon were supplied. Of ornamental and other plants 
the following were supplied: 
1 clump of Gyrtostachys lakka . one of Bambusa sp. , one of Musa 
Textillg . 20 seedlings of Hymenaea courbaril (West Indian Locust 
tree), 100 plants of Lotus plants $-20 cuttings of Pterocarpus indicus 
(Poko Sena). In addition some military took a number of grown up 
seedlings for camouflaging purposes. 
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5« Port sts : The two forert reserves were maintained as usual. There was njr 
florae unauth >rised felling in the Bukit Tiraeh Reserve but the suspected 
culprits h..ve bee a warned, 
6. bul t.»n a : In a. Lti.it ion to growing foodcropB the medicinal > lots were 
weeded ml cheu. Further 25 beds of Orthosiphon (Kurais Kuching) were 
planted, witn cuttings, 2 beds with seedlings of Akar Ohireta (Andrographie 
and 2 ,dt a seeue of blumea balsaraifera. V 
7. ye f«.c tabl e ri ot s : The lots were maintained with the usual view of 
g rovdi, cooxju vegetables to meet the needs of the labourers arm other 
staff, t .veep a soock of seeds and plants for the public and to eervu as 
a uifflouBtx'uUoii for the Nipponese. In all about 2* katies of leaf,, vogetabj.es 
ana o Kitties of Tapioca were supplied free to the labourers, the prouuce from 
plants grown in smaller scale being distributed to the members of the office 
staff, 
Darin > this month an attempt has been made to bring unuer cultivation 
abou;, o acres more of lan^in the Sultana, For this purpose the coolies were 
released from other work twice a week. As soon as this work is over, the 
co launal plots will be attended again. j 
c, La$ro and General Work : Motor mowers worked on Lawns B, K and W, where 
babats and scythes were also used. The Bunroc :ery, the paths in Lawn 0. 
the drains in 0, et Main Gate and Maranta Avenue were weeded. Supports 
were sup pi led to several Bougainvillea and Orchid Plante in Lawns B «■ X. 
Plants at the office and Plant house were regularly changed. 4any trees 
were pruned of their branches which obet^jeted the ro;>d traffic or were 
coring in contact with telephone wires. The coolie linos were cleaned 
twice during the month. 
