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included under one number, in Trong Un^u Claes, for instance, not 
only there were the two varieties of brinjale Trong ungu aosa r 
(long, dark purple) and Terong Ungu Kechll { roundish, dark purple) 
hut also a distinct species known as Terong chator f^nlatnui t Llumei) 
& brown mangost een - like brinjal . In Torong Put eh (tw# varieties 
long k round), different species of Terofog tuning t both edible k 
non-edible or medical (? Solarum verbascifolium . ?S. ferox, etc) and 
Terong blanda (S olanum mammosian ) were al so included. Many of the 
latter are e&id to grow wild in Perak , whereas T erong put eh is a 
cultivated species only. Terong Europe is not a brinjal , but 
a large sised Tomato, and T erong as earn is the common tomato, yet 
both these were included by some in the Brinjal class. There «M 
was also a similar confusicn in the classification of various other 
vegetable products including the Chilliest capsicum ) in which I was 
interested .1 did not receive much help in order to revise the 
classification made based on the information collected at the 
liogri Sombilan shows efJast year. The only thing that attracted wy 
notice awe regards the chillies is that the natives do not appear 
to have a special name for chillies and 7 probably owing to their 
pungent qualities, they cell them peppers* in Perak & Penang aide 
they axe called ch&bai . while in flegri Sembilan and in Singapore 
they are known as Lada, c hahai burong is Lada Api of s.sembilan. 
The horticultural section was oxtremely poor, while the best 
organised section of the show was of the Malaria Section. 
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The section mf fruits wore well represented, hut the 
citrus family ws.8 very poorly represented except perhaps by 
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ptkielo or Limau ( Citrus decun ana ). Limau Masam is nothing #1 
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else but lime.u as a m or sour limit ( c itrus a cijj g. or c «in cd j_g.fi var 
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acida) of Singapore. There were very large specimens of i-ielimtan^ 
3 i Atau ratu ( ^verrhoa car&mbola ) and nelimbing ,Huloh (A» Lelies* 
bing) and one could not eay whether the oizo was a faakxxit climatic 
or a Tarietal feature* There was an Avorrhoa Peliir.biri& which rooom» 
small 
bleu a^cumumbor but had nuges, It carried the fi»8t prize among 
the beli,Tbing8. Unfortunatoly, howoverf those fruits wore not for 
sale, for one sould have liked to grow them and soo how the tree 
