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SYONAN BOTANICAL GARDENS 
For 
Monthly Report/September, 2603 
1. Dr, Furtado's Repo rt 
herbarium & Library. Che ? Nur re-arranged 8,428 specimens 
belon- iny to the Sa£>otaceae, Ebenaceae, Styraoeae, Oleaceae, 
Salvadoraceae* and Afacynaceae, incorporating Hong Kong specimens, 
Che* Kiah collected and dried 40 specimens and mended 158 
specimens from the Hong Kong Herbaritim. he also helped Che* 
Nur in removing the Hong Kong specimens from the packages and 
in counting them* 
/ I assisted in naming many s pecimena of poisonous and edible 
plants “brought to us from Burma and elsewhere* (In many cases 
I had to supply Hindustani names to the plants of which inquirers 
had only Latin names, and in some cases I had to supply Latin 
names when the inquirers had vernacular names only). 
Some Military Officers showed interest in Timber trees, 
and I had to supply particulars concerning their specific gravity, 
durability, growth, scientific names, etc. 
Messrs York Chye, Juraimi and Bajuri prepared over 150 
drawings of weeds that could be used as vegetables* These 
drawings were required by the Military Authorities* 
Mr. A* EspecKerman typed 73 sheets of the library catalogue 
and helped Mr* A. Wahab in various ways. 
Miscellaneous, I was busy during the month with miscella- 
neous^aamini strati ve duties such as the classification of our 
labourers, etc* according to the new rules* Further, a good 
deal of time was taken in transmitting to the people the 
different orders sent by the Police. 
Death. On 24th instant one Indian Ooolie, kail a Bam, died 
of a short sickness. He had worked in the Gardens for nearly 
30 years. 
Labou r Short a/ ■ o *, We are still experiencing great 
difficulties in obtaining labourers to do same essential work 
in the Gardens. 
2. Mr* Hoi t turn f s B otanical Work* 
Mr. Holtturti studied the genus Oberonia (30 species in 
Malaya) and prepared descriptions of all species, with a key 
and diagrams of the habit and flowers of most of the species. 
He then began to deal with the Malayan terrestrial orchids, 
Qf which the genera Haknaria, Oorysanthes, Nervilia and 
cryptostylis were completed, so far as material available 
permits. A few more drawings were made. 
3 . O rchid s. A second seedlin of the hybrid Vanda Dearei 
X Miss Bagnin flowered during the month and was described* 
A plant of the little-known sjXJCies Jyiqilidium Atropuwpurgum 
flowered and the opportunity was taken to check published 
descriptions. The seedlings in culture were maintained, in 
the care of Mr. Livingston, five new hybrids being added during 
the month. The additions included hybrids of local Bendroliums 
belonging to different groups of species, which have never been 
cro&Bed previously. The results should be of considerable 
botanical interest. 29 new pollinations were made, some o': 
which have failed. 
