I 
I 
t 
7 
SYONAN BOTANICAL GARDES 
Monthly Report for August. 2603, 
X 
1* Dr. Fur^ado^ report . 
Herbarium. Che 1 Nur re-arranged 4740 specimens in the 
general herbarium and incorporated into it 916 specimens from 
the Hong Kong Herbarium. 
Che* Kiah dried 20 specimens for the Herbarium. 
About 60 specimens were identified for Nipponese officials, 
most of which were weeds used as vegetables. Mr. York Chye, 
Che’ Juraimi and Che’ Bajuri made 74 copies of drawings of 
vegetable plants and 30 original drawings of fresh specimens. 
Lib rary . Mr. A. Uspeckerman was officially appointed as 
a temporary typist from 12th August and was busy in making a 
typed list of the card index of the books according to the 
authors. 
Mi scellaneous . Che ! Kiah spent a week in Penang and 
brought for the Syonan Botanic Cardens living specimens and seeds 
of economic plants which he was specially instructed to collect. 
I iiad to take a number of Nipponese officials round the 
Gardens, hicb t of whom were interested in medicinal and timber 
L- trees. 
A barbed wire fence was put round the Gardens Coolie 
Lines with the view to control of thieves and unwanted visitors 
to the lines. 
Two thieves were arrested by our watchmen, one in the 
act of smuggling out a number of goods from Raffles College 
grounds, and the other thief on suspicion that he was responsible 
for stealing clothing belonging to some coolies who had gone 
to Thailand. The first thief was given into the custody of the 
soldiers at Raffles College; the second thief was handed over to 
the Orchard Road Police Station for further enquiry. 
/ 
y 
A list of the common poisonous plants from Burma and Assam 
v 7 was prepared and given over to Military Nipponese officials. 
fib 
During the first two weeks of the month Che 1 Nur and I 
were busy in distributing ration cards to the people, in explain- 
ing the new procedure concerning the rations, and in helping 
persons in the area around the Gardens to correct defects which 
would have prevented them from obtaining their rations. 
2 , Labelling,^; Indexing of Plants . 
Only one Label-printer was employed during the month 
(Bajuri bin Sappan); he spent part of his time in copying draw- 
ings of vegetable plants, and so few labels were made. 16 new 
labels were painted and 10 old ones re-painted. 35 hanging 
aluminium labels were made. 70 new Japanese labels were written 
by Mr. Sudo and placed in the Gardens. 38 new sign-boards for 
Bukit Tiinah Forest Reserve were prepared with white paint. 
Mr. Lange continued his revision of the plans of the trees 
and shrubs planted in the Gardens and of the index cards refer- 
ring to the plants. Lawns P, R and S were checked and the cards 
numbered according to the plans. Cards were made for all the 
memorial trees, and details in Japanese entered by Mr. Sudo, 
£» If 8 / 1 
