25 . 
planting he is 
familiar with the qd untry; and !he tells 
4 me that none of the lallang wastes are* older than 1 15 years 
and that most 
of them* 
are 
about 7 
years 
old. 
Damage to 
rice in 
the 
nursexy 
■by 
locusts 
was 
reported on this 
day. 
During my 
walk I 
tried to collect 
plen ts 
associated 
with lallang and obtained :- 
Bonnaya bracbiata only in o en lallang 
01deniand!a dichotoma < 
Oldenitkndia corynibosa only in. veru /(open lallang 
Merremia has tat a, in very open lallang 
Leucas zeylanica in open lallang 
Yandellia. Crustacea in rather open lallang 
* - * 
Crotalaria sp. scarcely truly a lallang plant 
; • - 
AndropQgon brevifolius in rather dense lallang in patches 
f 
Kedyotis with purple flowers in open lallang. 
* 
The 
observed 
last but one, i.e* 
* 
ih the motning but 
the Andropogon, was not 
near f amp in in the afternoon 
. duly 11th. After a visit to Malacca from u &dek to 
^miming, and back by Gadek to lamp in. Destruction of a 
femalld. amount of rice byw locusts was seen* and it was 
seen that they eat Paspalum conjjugatum vexy freel}^, Sigar- 
cane leaves also had been eaten. 
X paid another visit to the, shop in Malacca selling 
freah herbs, and record* the following as offered 
Euphorbia hirta, Siegesbeckia orientalis, Artemisia, Olden- 
^ * » 
landia corymbose. , Vernonia cinerea, dussiaea, Xclipta alba, 
* 
v 
Justicia endarussa, a sedge with- bright grass-like leaves 
sy* ’ 
r 
Cassia alata, Yandellia Crustacea, Oxalis corniculata, 
X 
« 
and Typhoni um t ri 1 obatum. 
* . t 
At night I left Tampin for Singapore. 
t 
<6 
A second VISIT to 
MALACCA in connection 
with locusts. August 20th. left Singapore at night. 
