coconuts and hill pad! * have "been attacked by the. locusts 
This tract has keen progressively cultivated from the ■ 
south side* Tinder the coconuts that are. oldest often one 
* 
gets a "big patch of Passiflora foetida, otherwise lallang: 
-w •' - ■ T T f y - v ‘v ‘ 1 ' «• 
c 
unaer newer oncunut^ i~ JiIIjl .. at the top of the dit 
» 
ditch vegetables are being grown,• chiefly Ipomoea Batatas. 
but sesamum, Citrullus, Luffa and homerclida were. present; 
* 
and Dio scores a lata, was seen once. 
In th black moist soil of this area- Dioscorea 
' 
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pyrifolia grows, and the place evidently suits it; one may 
* 
say that in Malacca the neighbourhood of water is neces- 
* 
sary for it. Dioscorea his pi da \ as senn at the head of 
the . area, and apparently wild as there are no . Arengas 
t 
in the neighbourhood andthereflore no sugar indistry. More- 
over I observe that someone had uprooted two plants as 
not wanted. 
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The locusts have here eaten the hill rice a.s they 
eat 1 al 1 ang , i . e . th ey h ave a.11 
leaf and eaten a portion. Th 
the Ai upper part of the 
like best/i is Paspalum conjuga 
jwisne locusts 
■ 
here they settle 
.Mj-wn patch, ^edges 
upon it, they leave no mora the 
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are ‘soeMhat eaten by them, 
jj**** 5 ** w ' 
In th rich rnukim of Sebatu, the mangosteen crops 
30 ' ■ 4 *. : - 
— 
yc 
promise well and 
the 
durians are 
j u s t 
ripe. 
The fall of 
the 
Kesang stream 
is 
so small that it 
is badly impee&ed 
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stranded logs 
between Chinch in 
bridge and the coast. 
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Share a appeared to be flowering in the Merlimau .forest; 
but it was inipossiboe to* stop for collecting. Cyrtibsperma 
Iasioides was observed in this forest; and Lasia was seen 
at Bukit G-adorig, 
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Duly 7th. to Kuala Linggi an back via Kampong Tengah 
and Lubok China, Sungei Siput , 3ri.su and Kama ong Tengah again, 
