Annual Report of the Director of Gardens, Straits Settlements 
for the year 1927 * 
COMMITTEES 
Thanks are due to the following gentlemen for their services as 
members of the Gardens Committees at Singapore and Penang. 
1. Singapore .— 
The Hon’ble Mr. Song Ong Siang, Mr. W. Dunman, Mr. J. M. 
Sime, Dr. G. IT. MacAlister, Mr. R. W. Hughes, Professor 
K. B. Williamson. 
2. Penang .— 
The Hon Tie Resident Councillor (Mr. R. Scott), the Senior 
Executive Engineer (Mr. F. T. Kinder), Mr. L. C. Brown, 
Mr. C. R. Samuel. 
STAFF 
Mr. M. R. Henderson, Curator of the Herbarium, acted as Director 
until August 13th, upon which date the Director resumed his duties after 
leave in England. 
Mr. C. X. Furtado, Assistant Botanist, was absent on leave until May, 
8th. 
Throughout the year Mr. G. A. Best had charge of horticultural work in 
the Singapore Gardens, Mr. F. Flippance of work in the Waterfall Gardens, 
Penang and Mr. J. Lennon of w T ork in Government House Domain, Singa¬ 
pore, and of other outside charges. 
Mr. Abdul Ivadir bin Elias was confirmed in the post of Field Assistant 
Penang, from July 1st, 1927. 
LABOUR 
In Singapore the average number of gardeners and coolies employed 
was 90; in Penang 62. Rates of pay were unchanged. 
REVENUE 
Revenue from the sale of plants and seeds was as follows: — 
$ c- 
Singapore ... ... ... ... 1,835 8 5 
Penang ... ... ... ... 1,002 55 
PLANT COLLECTION 
Mr. M. R. Henderson spent the period between April 24th and May 29th 
on the Islands of Aor, Dayang and Tioman, accompanied by Mr. N. Smedley 
of the Raffles Museum. For the first part of the expedition the Fisheries 
Department kindly lent their steam launch the “Shark”. The collections 
proved extremely interesting, all the more so because they were the first 
to be made at an altitude of above 1,000 feet on Pulau Tioman. The highest 
