August :21st. After seeing the Resident, I went to. Jasm, 
and Alor Gajsh. . Few flowers are out. The fruit season, which 
has )>een good is * just over. Rice-sowing is progressing. It 
is reported that locusts have destroyed the hill-rice at 
Bukit O-adong. Bi9'scorea hispida is everywhere very evident. 
It v;as observed that coconuts were being • cut iron among 
rubber near Gambia. • ; 
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While waiting to see the Hesident, I observed »h.a b 
Hivina pollinates itself, the anthers coming into contact with 
the stigma when the X lower is old. 
There is -a tree of &i zyphus jujuba on the Residency 
hill in Malacca.' 
August 22nd. I moved to Tampin. After reaching Tanpin 
I went almost- to Kendong by road, and returned a lon^ 
the railway line. The forest appeared very flowerless; 
Mussaenda* was noticed, and Hallotus, but not much more. The 
nods of Peltophorum dasyrrhacMs are ripe. . 
The laliang is long everywhere. ' along the .beremban 
road, except where it has been, burned, and there it is 
flowering. It ispnteresting that burning should.lead <-o 
flowers * • Mazus , Yandellia, Adenosma capitatui 9 Heoyotis 
V p ini folia, Amotis, Cynodon dactyl on and a xUumea were oosei 
ved to occur in . it. 
Xylocopa. aestda.ns was observed upon the flowers of 
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• Crptalaria striata at 4.0 p.m. . 
* August '23rd. to Tehong siding, 'and hy various paths 
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to Batang -alaka. TVe Passiflora foetida grown here looks 
rather unlike the more familiar plant. In the evening 
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along the Kuala Pilah * road for three miles. Arenga palms 
are common, but many stand dead, A Pious with “Bright fruit 
? Pious G-riff ithii , is com on upon them. Plov ers are very 
scarce. 
