forest and Pangkalan Balak 
lands and crosses now and. 
the road passes through village 
then paddy ' sawahs * B eyong 
Pangkalan Balak is rubber iriterplanteA with gambler, and 
near Paftgkalan Balak under rubber; and some very dirty 
tapioca under* rubber* Towards Lendu there is an increase 
in ■ the' amount of tapioca, generally in acre patches. 
In the Sungei Baharu forest no trees were con¬ 
spicuously in flo er; but suite a. number of small 
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trees were in flower with incons icuous flowers* The 
soil seems lateritic* Palms are present only * in hollows* 
Oncosperma was not observed* One' large flower was found, 
that if Randia macrophylla. 
(Previa microcos is just coming into flower* Gleroden- 
dron di sparifolium was seen in flower* Melastoma malabatl ri- 
cum is inf flower upon the roadside s. Phi lydrum was seen 
in flower in a swamp. 
February 3.4th* proceeded to‘ Ja,sin* After the first 
seven miles the - road is almost entirely through rubber. 
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but .near Jasin a little tapioca occurs mixed vith rubber 
and one patch of gambier under rubs er. About nine miles 
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from Malacca there are some mangosteen trees mixed 
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with rubber, and full of Loranthus* 
In the evening Xylocopa aestuans was observed upon 
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the flowers of Orotalaria striata. 
D es^amum was observed to grow well by a hut from 
which apparently the seech had been thrown 
February I5th, Passiflora quadrangular!s was seen 
in fruit. Turnera exists near Jasin, the white one,- 
and two individuals of Xylocopa aestuans were sucking 
honey upon its flowers, both when w ! e passed the spot 
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going out and when we passed it in returning,- thereiore 
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persistently* 
Rice no 454 seems to be a race which likes 
water than the others. 
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