31 . 
-> 
February 
5th* via 
the 
Yeo 
Ghu Kang 
road to Trafalgar 
estate and 
Be rangcon , 
In 
the 
mangrove 
'swamp near derangeon 
Avicennia, Kliizophora, and Bruguiera were in i J.U HVy J. CA! *, J 
if this is the flowering season of the mangroves* But 
* « * 
Lumniizera was not in f lever, 
... • *. * 
In a shop at Pay a -debar Apis indie a vas occupied sucking 
the cut surf ce of a fruit of durian hi an da, 
•Large areas of Pine apples have "been planted up the 
Thomson road* - < 
Upon cqcd nut leaves on the Trafalgar estate were freshly 
matured moths of Kidara Irava (see Richards in Agric, Bull, 
P.M.S* no. 3, 1914.). ‘ <* - 
February 10th. ■ to ITlu Berih, and by a, path to the 
♦ 
Sungei Bajau. Gambler cultivation has heen given up and 
a big clearing made for pine apples, 
> 
At U1 u Rerih is a. little raangrove forest with an 
abundance 
of 
epip} ytes 
on 
the 
trees. 
Bendrobium serra is 
common among 
them and 
also 
a 
si mi la: 
r Bendrobium. Medinilla 
Hasseltii 
was 
observed 
and 
i n 
berry. 
Homa. 1 o n ema G r i f f i th i i 
was collected on *a damp bank under trees, along with Pent a,' 
phragma. Ridleyi. A little further on where the ground was 
* 
drier Euthemis leucocarpa was found with. Pandanus parvus 
* 
and Labi sia pumila, 
* 
A TOUR of inspection 
to PE1TABG and MALACCA* March 24th, 1915, I left Singapore 
by the, S.S, Lama for Penang, the \ eather being unsettled. 
March 25th, in Port Sv/ettenfeam, v hence I ' mt to the 
forest 
" that 
I 
had 
visited 
two 
years 
ago and I 
collected 
nos. 728 to 
735. 
The 
forest 
i s 
much 
changed. In 
the 
first 
place 
by 
the 
removal 
of 
the 
larger trees 
, the 
% 
death of the Oncospemas has been brought about , Pasiflora 
foetida has found it possible -to invade the forest in 
places; but the big saline fern Aerostichum aureum has 
it 
