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In the afternoon I left for Singapore, 
, , c December 14th, at Port Swettentam, whence I -took the 
train ,to Kuala Lumpur, where I examined Agaves with 
Lewton-Brain* He has a lot of a Purcraea which is no, 
406 of the. Gardens field books, a patch of no, 405, and 
a little of 404. The nol 406 is producing thousands of 
bulbils. No, 405 is producing flowers amid bulbils,. Its 
stem carries leaves not in a rosette, but in a club, 
No,,,404 has very rigid leaves. None .small of rhubarb, 
be ? has a rather small tree of Dryobalanops in 
fruit • Cinnamomum Camphora after two cuttings is going to 
, ; flush, 
„ I returned in the afternoon to Port Swettenham, where 
befope sundown all the flowers . of < Ipomoea <pes-ca.prae had 
closed, 
hibiscus cannabinus was N seen in cultivation near Batu 
> 
Tiga; butinsects had defoliated it. 
c t * 
December 15th. in Singapore again, 
A VISIT to the 
KUKOB district. January 24th, left Singapore in xain in the 
and 
early morning, with Overbeck^,Piehn , A.Mackenzie; and arrived 
a.t Hevea estate in the afternoon. Thenceforward it rained 
yery heavily. On the Hevea estate the peat ends; which 
* peat it had been seen attains a depth of 20 feet on the 
Pineiro estate at .the. landing stage, and I have a note 
that it attains 90 feet elsewhere on the same estate. Under 
the peat up op. .the southern part of hevea, estat>e is a soft 
* blue clay, There the peat ends on the northern part the clay 
is white ,or yellowish, but not the yellow of the clay 
of Singapore, -aterite is found in the very north of this 
estate. The Heyea estate was planted up in 19 06 and the 
Pineiro estate in 1908; upon both the shrinking of the exp os- 
peat has left the rubber trees standing on stilts 
P/i/C, 
