Bamber has analysed the soil of the Lunas estate 
which is at this point nad he reports 70 per cent of sa nd 
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It is homogeneous to at least three feet. The estate was 
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in tapioca interplanted with coconuts, and the coconuts 
died badly, possibly because the water was not held 
sufficiently for thdm. EaTLang seems to have’ followed 
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the tapioca., 
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December 12th. To the Waterfall Gardens, and in their 
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neighbourhood, Flowers are very scarce under the trees, 
Didymo carpus rep tans was found at the site of Curtis* 
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bungalow, and was the only -plant in flower, Rhodomyrtus 
and a Zizyphus were found in flower upon the lowest 
part* of the hill road, but there "were no hefcbs in 
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flower with them. In open places herbs are in flower 
such as grasses, a Xyris, a esmodium; but nothing conspi- 
cuous is 1 in flower. 
On the “dev^a trees in the Gardens a blacX Melipona 
was collecting latex in'large numbers, Md. Haniffsay s that 
this bee is a great flower visitor and th&t the races 
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of fruir trees are crossed by it, so that* they rarely 
come true. ri e s a ys that it is a great visitor to the 
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flowers of the coconut palm* 
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In the Gardens Bignonia magnifica is flowering splendidly. 
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Allamand violacea and A. Schottii are flowering well. There 
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is a Stillingia flower ng .freely with strongly smalling green 
flowers 
Butterflies are not numerous, 
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Jacaranda mimosasfolia is flowering well 
Psophocarpus is on sale in the stalls here; and 
its blue flowers have been seen in a garden twining with 
Dolichos Lablab. 
1 December 13th, To the Gardens, where tubers of 
glabra 
^ioscorea were dug. Thorns do not develop on . 
the stems in its first year of gr6wth. 
