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In the evening I -went to a. granite . quarry upon the 
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north of . Jasin, through part of tie Kemendor estate, 
^ioscorea pyrifolia was common in the hollo?/ upon the 
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way carrying XX2KX fruits half-ripe as well as male 
flowers. There are a few palms in this- hollow, hut small; 
and 'there is Plectocomia, The only plants of - Oncosperma 
seen so far are upon the west side of Jasin, 
The - weeds in the rice fields are all nlefnocotyledon- 
pus except a little IJtricularia. 
A Maeea was seen in f lower and plentu ’of Blumea 
balsamif era,, 
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February 15th, Coffea is in the gardens of Jasin 
and is attacked by Hemileia.Beppe’r is very sparingly groin 
February 16th, ' e returned from Jasin to Malacca, 
via -^esairg and Durian Tunggal. Almost to Kesahg the’ road goes 
through village lands of the usual type; then for a little 
through forest, and at its edge old mining which is 
described in Cavanagh’s Reminiscinces p.’ 276: from the 17th 
mile forward we went for some distnce through country 
covered by lallang and in the lallang a sprinkling of 
small trees,- Vitex neduncularhs and the like. 
South-west of u a*ring esta/te there is a faih amountb 
of tapioca, and a few pine applet were seen planted under 
rubber, near Batu ^erendani. 
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At Batu ^ erendaoi an Opuntia apparently 0. cochinelifera 
was seen < in a garden, an old plant about seven feet high. 
In Jasin in the morning I had seen Xylocopa latipes 
biting through the tubes of the flowers of Jacaranda 
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mimosae folia,, 
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February 18th. Proceeded from Malacca to Kuala Lumpur, 
Gal an the plicata and a £ romheadi a we re observed in flower 
near Seremban. Dioscorea pyrifolia is common near the office 
