11 . 
Durian bl&nda trees are badly attacked by a wooly 
aphi s . 
February lath, x>y orain to Alor Gajali, and with * T .D. 
Hall to Pulau Sabang and Sempang topat. 
Rice crops do not come wp’ to the railway in most 
places. Hall says that water now escapes to the sea by 
the Malacca river in one quarter of the time that it used 
to take. This is a consequence of the clearings of the 
r 
Uplands* Dover the less more rice has been sown m him. s 
year than in 1912. In 1911 . there v<hs a, drought and a 
partial failure of the ^rice crops which left no seed- 
rice; moreover rinderpest in 1911 cleared off the plough- 
« 
buffaloes. In the current year flooding had done damage. 
* 
Rice reaping is now in rapid progress. 
About Alor Gaj&h there is an/interesting form of 
ecru. The highest bush in it is generally Peltophorum 
dasy rrhachi s ; and Morinda elliptica is common in i 1 > 
■ being the next in size. Smaller tushes are Decas^ermum 
paniculatum and another (no 431; . Kenslovia varlans is 
plentiful in it. Grass occurs between the bushes. The 
ground is now hard. 
The 
lallang 
does 
not 
make ' a, part 
of this vegetation; 
but 
1allan3 
lands 
1 are 
not far 
away . 
February 13th. By TanJong KLing and the Sungei Baharu 
forest to Pangkalan Balak, and on a few miles further; and 
on the return by the road which almost reaches Alor Gajah. 
The Pernambuco cotton, the introduction of which is 
'recorded in Jack*s letters, was seen near Mahjong KLing. 
Opuntia monacantha exists upon a house roof in 
Tranquemar. 
4 The rice crops upon this side- of ^alacca appear very 
good. There is new planting of coconuts and of rubber 
just before the Sungei Baharu forest is reached. Between the 
