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on little mounds. 
Lettuce ' is flowering and many Individuals of Apis 
dorsata are at its flowers. 
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Ecliuta ’is plentiful upon ro dsrdes, Jussiaea was seen 
in flower. ' * * 
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June 20th, arrived in benang at 8 a.m, , and went to the 
'"aterfall gardens. The heavy rich green foliage of Pterocarpus 
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indicus. the angsana, is most noticeable in Penang, In two 
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Gardens fessia javanica and Cassia, fistula are making a fine 
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show. 0 £ pot,-plants flowering are orange Cosmos, Impatiens fcal- 
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saraina, Amarants and Petunias. Vfchite and magenta waterlil/.ies 
are flowering freely. A number of orchids are in flower. A 
species of Eurya is flowering most abundantly and so is Grew!a 
paniculata. There is a great abundance of Dioscorea lauri- 
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folia springing up everywhere near the jungle. 
June 21st. In the morning to the Gardens and in the 
afternoon to Mount Erskine on its west side. The soil looks 
poor but seems to suit the orchards of rambutans and (father 
fruits. Grasses are plantiful and the Chinese grave-yard is 
covered by them almost to the exclusion of anything else. 
Passiflora foetida, 1 Rantana Camara and stachytarphe ta are 
plentiful. Mel&stoma malabathricym is present , but not in large 
quant i ty • Grew i a pan i cula.ta i s abundant • 
There are no signs of coconut beetles in the coconut 
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palms; but the foliage is commonly damaged, 
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Wne 22nd. To the “aterfall. There is a statement in one 
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of the old Gardens reports to the effect that jungl© was at 
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that time displacing lallang at the head cf the Gardens. 
That would . refer to jungle near the Waterfall which appears 
as if. about 80 years old. Cavanagh in bis Reminiscences, p* 
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279 states that excessive* removal of timber had taken place 
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from the r enang hillsides; but that woodsmen were not allowed 
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above a certain level, Curtis in his Flora of b e nang remarks 
