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was brought by H.E. the Governor from Fraser's Hill. It grew well, 
flowered freely, and is one of the most useful of the semi-woody flowering 
climbers. Clematis dioica, introduced from British Honduras, grew 
strongly.on the Pergola, but has not yet flowered. 
Losses. —The most serious losses of trees during the year were in the 
neighbourhood of the Aroid Rockery and Potting Yard. A fine Alangium 
Ridleyi was blown down in a storm, its roots rotten with Ganoderma, and 
caused a serious gap in the shade of the rockery. A large oak beside the 
potting jmrd involved other trees in its fall and did a good deal of damage 
to the Carpenters’ Quarters; one of the other trees involved was our finest 
specimen of Castilloa elastica. 
Orchids. —The collection of orchids was maintained in fair condition, 
and a number of new seedlings raised. Additional bench space was 
provided at the Director's house by the reconstruction of existing staging 
under the front of the house. The young seedlings in the potting yard still 
occupy space which is really needed for ferns,, begonias, etc., and another 
house to accommodate them more adequately is much to be desired. The 
growing of seedling plants was improved by keeping the plants more moist, 
by cleanliness of potting material, and by allowing the young plants to 
remain in the flasks to as late a stage as possible. 
The beds for Vandas, Arachnis, etc., above the Sun Rockery were 
re-made and arranged according to a better plan. Thrips continued to 
give much trouble; their control is the principal problem in the cultivation 
of this class of orchid in Singapore. The Renanthera collection was 
increased by the gift of some plants of R. coccinea brought from Indo-China 
by Mr. W. J. C. Frost; we shall be interested to see how these compare 
with the local garden strain of R. coccinea, the origin of which is unknown, 
and the other variety from Rower Siam. 
Seedlings of Arachnis H ookeriana x A. flos-aeris (the white and 
common scorpion orchids) flowered for the first time during the year; the 
flowers proved to be hardly distinguishable from A. Maingayi, which is 
thus shown to be a natural hybrid. Arachnis Hookeriha x Renanthera 
coccinea (Rower Siam variety) also flowered and proved to be closely 
intermediate between its two parents; it was described in the Malayan 
Orchid Review as Aranthera Mohamed Haniff. Mohamed HanifF was on 
the staff of the Gardens Department for 36 years and collected the Rower 
Siam variety of R. coccinea which was the male parent of the hybrid. The 
hybrid inflorescence ascends obliquely (one parent has erect, the other 
horizontal inflorescences) and bears flowers of a good form, purple pink on 
a cream background, giving a general effect of brick red. The Spathoglottis 
Veillardii ^ aifmis seedlings reported as flowering in 1935 continued to 
flower freeW. The hybrid was named Jubilee (as it first flowered about 
the time of the Jubilee of H.M. King George V) and described in the 
Malayan Orchid Review. The flowers on different plants show a great 
range of colour, though all are closely similar in form. The yellow and 
mauve colours of the two parents are present in varying intensities and 
combined together in varying degrees, so that some flowers are salmon- 
orange, some almost yellow, some mauve, these colours varying in intensity 
down to very pale shades which are not worth preserving. The habit of 
the hybrid inflorescence is erect, which is a form new to cultivated 
Spathoglottis. Another Spathoglottis hybrid flowered during the year 
but has not yet been named. It is 5 . plicata var. P arson si i (a natural hybrid 
from the Philippines) x S. plicata Penang White. The flowers of this 
hybrid have various shades of a pretty rose-pink, with deep yellow calli 
