March 5th. . After a 
day 
in Penang, 
left 
for Singapore. 
The angsana trees have. 
* gone- 
bare , and 
the 
treevS of Laear- 
an da, rnomos ae f o 3. i a rather 
bare , 
■f 
March 6th. in Port Swettenham. 
* 
inarch 7th. reached Singapore, -. here • the' flowers of 
G ramiaatophy 1 lum are in exactly the same condition as they 
v.ere in the Bindings; hut they flowered in July in 
Penang. . , 
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S- ■' 
... i. , !« ,, 
* 1 
.A VISIT to 
MALACCA in order to 
organise Locust- 
destruction. tTu^y 2nd, 19!4 f left Singapore "by the night 
a 
mai 1 , 
J-lj' Ora* In Malacca , where, a spell of. wet, weather has 
- 1 • Hice has only just been spwn in Alcr G-ajah, the 
delay being due to the want of rain. The river is 
uixm-iull. I he upturneo flowers of Commie rspnia are injured by 
* . . ■ /' 
' i ^* ■ car lies at the sane time half—ripe fruit, 
(ilerodendion disparifolium and a red Ixora are in flower, 
. * 
Limnanthemum is in flower in" the rice fields. Several 
grasses and sedges are in i lower* In Malacca the flowers 
« 
oi the following were seen,- Euphorbia hirsuta, Scoparia 
- ■ - °» J - 1 ■ J1 ■ ' ■ i Q* i Ec j. i ta alba, a 1 i ttle Bar 1 e ria-, an 
* ■ ■ 
Alys si carpus. 
On the nill in Malacca the trees of Pibinciana regia 
appear stubted, whereas the big Euphorbia is splendidly 
c 
grown. Apis was upon the flowers of the former. Xylocopa 
.. ti 
is mating. 
the Chinese fresh- 
* 
July 4th. In the shop of 
t * + 
herb seller are Hydrocotyle asiatica, Mazus and Vandellia, 
Lentaria, Spermacoce, the big Lactuca whioh I have collected 
+ ' 
at Ja.ssin, and a Jussiaea. 
Locusts had found a Phaseolus in cultivation very much 
