8 . 
Along the creek below the landing stage, Garapa is 
evident along with mangroves, Graimiatophyllum is ' growing 
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in them, ho, 118 is a common shrub upon the peat, 
A TOUR of 
INSPECTION to 
PENANG. December, 8th. , 1913. left Singapore by the 
3r 
night train , and on the evening of December /f®th* reached 
Penang, There is ne\ ly planted rice and half-grown rice 
to he ’seen between Kuala Lumpur 'arid Prai. Colocasias seem 
r newly planted. At Btikit Mertajam there afe five fields of 
Sagittaria, Bauhinia (doubtles B. flammifera) as seen in 
flower hear Tanjong Malim. 1 
December 10th. Twice to the '/aterf. 11 Gardens, Cassia 
javanica is. covered with long rods nearly ripe from the 
flowers seen upon the last visit. There a.re several. 
nice orchids in flower and Decaschista pulchra which 
* 
Md, Kaniff has procured from Setol. The trees of Polyalthia 
longifihMa are unsatisfactory. Coconut planting is taking 
place , new trees among the old in the plantation of the 
island, 
* 
December 11th. With Mr. Bos to the Lunas estate upon 
the Kedah border. After leaving Lutterworth the road at a 
few miles crosses the Prad river at a place where there is 
* much ITipa cultivation now with ripe fruit. In the extensive • 
rice fields a yellow Utricnlaria is conspicuously in flower. 
The ravages of Oryctes and of Brachartona upon the Coconuts 
at Malang ITapauk ’are too evident. 
The road continues among rice fields with grovesof 
coconuts and then climbs a bit and runs among coconuts with 
only a little rubbe r ~ and no j ungle until it reaches the 
frontier of Province Wellesley, In thd 300 yards belt, which 
marks the frontier I collected Dioscorea pyr&folia, and 
Keuyotis capitellata, The bit is covered by six-fiet high 
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bushes , with lallang. All the timber has been removed, 
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