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plants have leaves which lie horizontal, so as to catch 
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the maximum amount of light. It si otherwise with 
Labisia pumila and no, 751, which have leaves upright at 
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the base curling over from the middle, f'reyoinetia leaves 
do much the same; and a ^re 3 ^cinetia is present in the 
hollow-, 
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^wo or three filmy ferns occur and a lot of mosses 
But fruiting mosses are rare. Palms, are plentiful, partic- 
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ularly so. It is interesting that tough leaved palms should 
abound in such hollows 
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There, is a Strobilanth.es among the rocks, hut not in 
flower. Several u esnerads occur. The Oncosperma palms seem to 
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he absent. , 
si to he noted that coconuts are growing and 
hearing 'right at the'top of the hill. 
One plant of the common Clerodendrcn has heen seen 
in flower: most of them hear the "black fruits. The magenta 
Osheckia and ? Rhodomyrtus are sparingly in flo wer. There 
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is a light pink Ipomoea in flower freely upon the hill. 
Down in the hollow; hinder the Crag is an abundance of 
Dacrydiurn-seedlings about IB inches • high. It appears as if 
they cannot persist there for why if so are there no large 
trees. In that case the seeds have been washed down from 
the neighbourhood of the houses upon the hill. 
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In the Bel Reti ro . ga.rden th 1 3- roses wan t pruning, and 
and not always judiciously planted. In pots are red ^ elar- 
goni>um zonale, Brswallia, two or three Begonias, a lot of 
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Impatiens Sultani, hippeastrums, an orange lilym and a 
little Aster, 
The. hromheadia flowers * vl ich were open at 8,50 a.m. 
were closing at 5 p.nt. . 
April 3rd, In the morning upon Government hill, in the 
afternoon to Western hill ancl. in th evening about the rocks 
on the north of the Crag hotel. On this sunny afternoon 
