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Mo nthly Report for Hey, 2603 . 
1. Herbarium . 
Che* Mohd. Kur re-arranged 2893 specimens of the family 
Rubiacaae, and inserted 134 newly mounted specimen a in the 
herbarium* 
Che 1 Kiah raounted 95 speeinens, mended 223 specimens of 
the herbarium of cultivated plants and dried 20 specimens. 
2. Lr. Purta&c^s report on hi s work . 
Mr. York Chye prepared under my direction 3 plates of 3 
species of Calamus. 
I drafted three descript i ns of Calamus species, two of 
which are new, of the latter one being from Borneo. 
With the assistance of Che f Nur I determined 275 specimens 
for Nipponese officials. Of these 131 were specimens of tte 
plants the leaves of which are used by the Indonesians as 
vegetables. In this case I had to give the name of the plant 
family to which thei specimens belong, where they are distributed 
by cultivation or otherwise, aru what parts axe eaten and how. 
Miaccllanfcous s I conducted. Nipponese Pharmacists four 
times round the Gardens, showing them medicinal and poisonous 
plants. Sometimes they were also interested in looking up 
the literature we have the plants. 
Che f Abdul Wahab helped me to bring sugar, while rice, 
flour, oil, etc. and their permits were brought by me. Rice 
was distributed twice to the coolies and others of our staff, 
while the oth<.r commodities were distributed only once. The 
quantities of oil and soap received are insufficient to meet 
the requirements of our coolies who cannot afford to buy these 
commodities at the black market price. V?e received oil and 
soap much less than the men would have obtained had they 
registered themselves outside. I assisted Prof. Kohoriba in 
teaching Nippon -go and conducted classes twice a week. 
3* L abelling and Recording of Plants . 
The junior Label Printer (Juraliai) was transferred to the 
Museum from the beginning of the month. A new man (Karuppiah) 
was engaged, but was much absent and finally left. For this 
reason fewer labels were mad© during the month. 45 new labels 
were made and 40 old labels re-painted. 40 standard aluminium 
labels were renewed, and 118 hanging aluminium labels made. 
10 sign -boards and 120 new wooden labels were painted white for 
writing Japanese names and notices. Mr. Lange revised the maps 
of lawns a and P, making corrections as necessary, and arranging 
for new labelling. Mr. Lange also recorded the new planting 
for the month. 
4# Mr. Holt turn * s Botan ic a 1 > o rk . 
Mr. Holt turn continued his work on orchids. He studied and 
prepared draft descriptions of three st all groups of genera 
(groups of Agrostophylium, Appendicula and Cyrabidium), including 
about 50 species in all, preparing new keys for the identifica- 
tion of local species. He also wrote an account of *he 
Cattleya group, for horticultural purposes, and made drawings 
of several more local orchids and hybrids. 
