Memorandum 
on a proposed Flora oY .the Straits Settlements 
by J. D. Hooker.’ 
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Having been requested to place on record my views as 
to the most favourable means of accomplishing the 
publication of a Flora of the Straits Settlements, I beg 
herewith to offer the following observations and 
suggestions. 
The vegetation of the Straits Settlements is one of 
the richest on the globe-. It- abounds in plants of the 
greatest' economic value for food and medicine and in the 
arts and manufactures. Its position and climate of.fer 
great facilities for the introduction and cultivation of 
useful plants other th£.n its own, and its forests teem 
with hitherto undescribed trees and shrubs many of which 
will doubtless prove as valuable to mankind as others of 
its known kinds have already proved to be. And yet no 
English possession on the globe is so badly supplied 
with the means of determining what its vegetation consists 
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of as are the Straits Settlements. Of every other British 
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