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of twenty plants of the celebrated Nagpur Orange; from the Agri-Horticul- 
tural Society of India, which has its head quarters in Calcutta, were received 
130 races of Canna, some races of Hedychium and various other plants; from 
Kew 55 plants were received, both ornamental and economic. 
The numbers of entries in the Department’s “Plants inwards” books 
were: — 
in Singapore 1,254, referring to 621 plants and 1,067 packets of seed; 
in Penang 108, referring to 523 plants and 92 packets of seed. 
Seed of twenty-seven palms new to the collection has been obtained. 
Attalea Cohmie, the palm used by the rubber collectors on the Amazon for 
sm'aking “hard para,” began to fruit in the Gardens, where it has been for 
about twenty-five years. A few years ago a local newspaper advocated the 
growing of this palm for the oil in its seed, without first ascertaining in any 
way the age at which it fruits. Experience does not justify advocating it. 
Believing greatly in the value of the Avocado pear for Malaya, the Depart¬ 
ment has got plants of five races now, and hopes to get more. 
The Director of Agriculture, Sierra Leone, upon request, sent tubers of 
the yam found by him to be a heavy yielder in West Africa and called in his 
reports the “Hausa potato”. It proved to be the Lesser Yam of the East 
Indies (Dioscorea esculcnta). 
The Director of Agriculture, Philippine Islands, upon request, supplied 
suckers of the five best races of pisang (banana) grown in his experiment 
stations. . 
As the Department of Agriculture, Ceylon, had advertised the stock 
of young plants held for the purpose of supplying the public, for the sake of 
comparison a count of corresponding stock in the Colony was taken at the 
end of the year; and the numbers were found roughly equal, there being 
37,400 plants in Singapore, and 11,100 in Penang. 
Dry collections .—Herbarium specimens were gratefully received from the 
Forest Department (1,052), the Bureau of Science, Manila (882), the Botanic 
Gardens, Buitenzorg (444), His Highness the Prince Bonaparte (134), Pro¬ 
fessor C. F. Baker (too, being his sixth century of Malayan Fungi), 
Mr. A. R. Sanderson (26), Dr. Lim Boon Keng, Messrs. C. Boden-Kloss, 
J. C., Moulton, G. E. Perry, and F. W. South. 
The Assistant Director, Major Chipp, collected fungi through Singa¬ 
pore island and to a small extent elsewhere; the Director after his return 
collected the higher plants in a few places, c.g., Penang, Ipoh, Kuala Lumpur, 
Gemas. Mr. Mohamed Haniff collected, upon a visit for seeds, in the 
neighbourhood of Sungei Siput, Perak; and Major Moulton collected for 
the Department upon the Upper Baram river in Sarawak about Lio-matu and 
on the mountains to the north of it. Dr. Docters van Leeuwen, Director 
of the Botanic Gardens, Buitenzorg, visited the Settlements, and collected 
galls which particularly interest him; and this splendid opportunity was taken 
by the Department of submitting to him a further collection of galls. 
Major Chipp’s “List of the Fungi of the Malay Peninsula” (Gardens’ 
Bulletin, 11. pp. 311-418) is a very important publication from the Herbarium. 
The following herbarium specimens were sent out: — 
to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 
to the Botanic Gardens, Buitenzorg 
to Mr. G C. Lloyd (fungi) 
to the Bureau of Science, Manila ... 
to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta 
to the Botanic Gardens, Brisbane 
and lesser numbers to Miss G. Lister, Messrs. N. Patouillard, 
E. Cheel, W. Hales, J. R. Weir, H. N. Dixon, J. Groves, 
M. Persin, and the Department of Agriculture, Pretoria 
696 
279 
261 
255 
125 
107 
220 
Total .. 1,943 
