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Messrs; Abdul Kadir, Ahmed bin Hassan, Lawrie C. Brown, P. L. Chaf- 
FANJON, A DE VlLLELE, St. V. B. DOWN, DAVID FAIRCHILD, G. FARMER, 
W. P. Handover, A. Montefiore, G. P.. Owen, B. K. Saheb, and C. L. 
Wragge; the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the Botanic Gardens, Brisbane, 
Buitenzorg, Port Darwin, the Seychelles and Trinidad; the Departments of 
Agriculture, Bombay, British'North Borneo, Egypt and the United States 
of America; the Chief Conservator of Forests, Nyasaland; the Deputy Conser¬ 
vator of Forests, Lakhimpur, Assam; the Forest Ranger, Larut; and the 
firm of MM Andrieux-Vilmorin et Cie. 
Living plants were brought into the collections from Selangor by the • 
Director and *by Mr. Best; from Penang Hill by Mr. Flippance; from 
Lankawi and Terutau by Mr. Mahomed Haniff and from Sibolangit, Sumatra, 
by the plant-collector Mahomed Nur, working under Dr. Foxworthy and 
Mr. Loerzing. 
The entries in the “Plants-inwards” books were 1,141 in Singapore, 
relating to 1,471 plants and 1,191 packets of seed, 160 in Penang, relating to 
1,801 plants and 149 packets of seed. 
The Gardens played a part in the introduction into cultivation of the 
anti-leprosy plants, Gynocardia odorata, Taraktogenos Kursii and Hydno- 
carpus spp., raising plants from the seed which the Department of Agricul¬ 
ture, U. S. A., collected by the agency of Professor Rock. Professor Rock 
proceeded through Siam, Burma and Assam in the quest of the seed; and 
that the result of his labours might not be lost through the death of the 
seed in transit, he selected a few Gardens as recipients, one being Singapore’s. 
The seedlings were easily raised, thanks to Professor Rock’s care in collecting 
seed, and are now well established. The writer some years ago with the 
assistance of Dr. D. Hooper was also abl£ to show that seeds of Gynocardia 
odorata only come into the market dead, and the oil rancid, because the seed 
is so carelessly collected. 
The jardin Colonial of Laeken supplied seed of Congo coffees, and of 
Congo Elseis. The Department of Agriculture, Ceylon, supplied some excel¬ 
lent races of the sweet potato. The Department of Agriculture, U. S. A., 
gave seed of Avocado pears of repute. By exchange excellent samples of 
some Burmese orchids were got from the Botanic Garden, Maymyo The 
Conservator of Forests, Nyasaland, was so good as to supply seed of the 
Mlanji Cedar, Widdringtonia Wkytei. 
This interesting and desirable Conifer has not succeeded in Singapore; 
but there is a seedling alive in the Waterfall Gardens, Penang, which Garden 
as regards Conifers shows a more suitable climate than Singapore; so that 
Cupressus glanca grows well in it, whereas it has been lost from the Singapore 
Gardens; and Pinns Merkusii planted in it has reached twenty feet in height, 
whereas it has stopped growing in Singapore at five feet. 
Casuarina sumatrana gave a welcome supply of seed in Singapore, and 
has been reproduced. 
A gratifying success in Singapore has been with Caryocar nuciferum, of 
which the first seedling now exists. Caryocar villosum is growing well in 
Singapore. 
Pests. —Pests were very troublesome in Singapore towards the end of 
the year, when there was an outbreak of the palm beetle Protocerus colossus , 
accompanied by some abundance of Rhynchophorus ferrugineus and Oryctes 
rhinoceros. It is thought that the unusual dry weather in July favoured 
them. The following palms were attacked by the Protocerus,— Archonto- 
phcenix Alexandra, Attalea Cohune, Chrysalidocarpus lutescens , Cyrto- 
stachys Lakka, Elceis guineensis, Licuala horrida and L. Rumphii , 
Livistona Hoogendorpii and L. Kingiana , Phoenix humilis var. Rcebelinii and 
Sabal princeps. At the same time Rhynchophorus ferrugineus was found 
in Phoenix dactylifera , P. seylanica and Livistona chinensis; and larvae of 
one or of the other, but too immature for certainty, were extracted from the 
stems of Orania re gaits and Stevens onia grandis . 
