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The Department brought into cultivation plants from Gunong Tahan, 
from the Semangkok Pass, and from the hills near Seremban and Gunong 
Tampin. Further the Director brought back plants from Gunong Gedeh in 
Java, whither he had gone on short leave in May, and Mr. Flippance brought 
plants back similarly from Kedah. The Plants-inward book in Singapore 
records the receipt of 1,874 plants and 9*3 packets of seed; and in I enang 
records the receipt of 2,304 plants and 234 packets of seed. 
Hydraiigea Hortensia flowered and Coelococcus carolinensis fiuited in 
Singapore. 
Captain Berkeley’s gift was of seed of a small Rubiaceous shrub used 
as a substitute for coffee in Upper Perak. The young plants raised are 
yet too small for determination. 
The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, sent seed of Picralima Klaineana , 
a tree which provides a widely-used African remedy for fever. At present 
the seedlings are 6 inches high. 
Pests .—Two orchids suffered much during the year from the attacks of 
beetles 1 they were Calauthe veratrifolio which was attacked by an 
Aovocrypta and Spathoglottis plicata which was attacked by a Hispid other 
lhan the common Gonophora. 
A Coccid was bad on Hibiscus and a caterpillar on Cassia fistula. 
A beetle found destroying Shorea seed proved to be a species of Alcidei,. 
The determinations of the insects above were received from the 
Honourable Mr. C. J. Saunders. 
Dry Collections . — Advantage was taken, as follows, of oppoitrinities of 
collecting in various parts of the Peninsula. I he Director collected at Fort 
Swettenham and in Penang (March 11-20) ; Mr. Mohamed Haniff on Gunong 
Tahan (May 20U1—June 18th); the Director at Port Swettenham and in Penang 
(]une 17th-26th); the Director and Assistant Director together, about 
Fraser Hill, in Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Province Wellesley and Port 
Swettenham (September 15th-October nth); the Assistant Director m 
Central Johore and Negri Sembilan (November 15th - December 5th), the 
Director near Kuala Lumpur and in Penang (December 5th-13); 
Mr. Best and the Gardens* plant-collectors on Gunong 1 ulai (April 
24th—26th and December 28th.) 
Further while on leave the Director made a collection of dry plants upon 
Gunong' Gedeh, Java, which has been incorporated in the Gaidens heibaiium. 
Mr. H. C. Robinson gave very kindly help to Mr. Haniff when visiting 
Gunong Tahan. 
The following herbarium specimens were sent out: 
to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew ... ... 75 ^ 
to the Bureau of Science, Manila ... ••• 7 J 8 
to the Botanic Gardens, Buitenzorg ,.. ••• 604 
to the Prince Roland Bonaparte (ferns foi 
determination) •*• 
to Mr. G. C. Lloyd (fungi for determination) ... 235 
to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta ... ... *74 
to the Forest Department, Kuala Lumpur ... 13 1 
to the Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, Mass. ... 124 
to the Botanic Gardens, Brisbane ... 108 
to Mr. H. N. Dixon (mosses for determination) ... 100 
to the British Museum of Natural History ... 90 
Carried forward ... 3>347 
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