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in ney leaf and flowering. Here is a M allotus in flower 
Kymphaea was seen , and Thotfea grandiflora (at the 13th, 
iEile t Jasin road) and Ghasalia curviflora (Selandar) and 
Cyrtosperma lasioides (Jasin). 
April Bth. to Alor Gajah, hack to'Gadek and through 
Karauning to Tamp in. Melasgoraa ma.l aha th r i cum and ^aphni- 
phyllura laurinum hear flowers, and likewise the common 
Mallotus. A few trees of PeltoT)horum and Morinda. carry 
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flowers. By Alor uajan station Phyllanthus is in flower, 
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Antidesma, and Strophanthus dichotomus and the Durian. 
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April 9th. to the Tangga Batu estate fo.look at 
Kevea trees, which bleed. There are quite a number in 
different parts of the estate, which bleed one drop at a 
time. Later on sectioning those trees, it seemed possible 
that the bleeding had origin in lightning discharge; but this 
was not proved. Tangga Batu is, exposed to strong winds. 
Floods are out about Durian Tunggal on th sedgey 
saw ah. between that place and ^alacca not a little rice is 
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still uncut, mu eh of it yielding, poorly. 
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In the evening I occupied myself with the direction, 
of flowers. Canthiu:. parvifolium and no. 833 face upwards, 
Gonocaryum 1onge rap emo sum , Globba panicpides, and Didymo- 
carpu$ platypus face horizontally. Xylopia ferruginea, 
,Eugenia lineata, Palaquium clarkeanum, Uvaria purpurea, 
Litsea ray ri s tica e f ol i a , Bos chi a Griff i t) i ana. , an d 1], aeo c a rpu s 
stipularis face downwards. I expect that a census would 
demonstrate a great preponderance of downwardly directly 
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flowers. An approaching thunderstorm cut short my observations. 
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April 10th. I left Tam;; in for ^Cuala Lumpur. In the 
Agricultural Experimental ground I npticed how irregularly the 
Camphor trees have grown, ^rom Kuala Lumpur I \ ent to 
Port Swettenham. There at sundown I t walked along the Klang 
