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and Penang. 1 he Director also spent about a week working at the 
Herbarium at Rew, visited the British Museum (Natural History), the 
Botanic Gardens at Rew, Cambridge, Munich and Brussels, several Horti¬ 
cultural shows, and presented a- paper on Malayan ferns, illustrated by 
lantern slides, to the Linnean Society of London. 
Mr. Henderson arranged some classes for the instruction of officers 
of the Preventive Service and Police Inspectors in the identification of 
Indian hemp and prepared descriptions and illustrations of the plant for the 
Monopolies Department. 
PUBLICATIONS 
An issue of the Gardens Bulletin, Vol. 5 Nos. 3—6, was published 111 
June, and contained a variety of articles on the Malayan flora. During the 
year the remaining two parts of Vol. 6 were published in England under 
the editorship of Mr. I. H. Burkill. Volume 6 as completed consists of 
the following parts, covering 474 pages and dealing with medicinal plants 
in use in Malaya : — 
1. On Chinese Medicine: Drugs of Chinese Pharmacies in Malaya, 
by David* Hooper. 
2. Malay Village Medicine: by I. H. Burkill and Mohamed Haniff, 
3. The Medical book of Malayan Medicine, by J. D. Gimlette and 
I. H. Burkill. 
The material for parts 1 and 2 was collected by Mr. Burkill, and the whole 
volume is due to his interest in the subjects concerned. Cordial thanks are 
also due to Dr. Hooper for the very great labour which he expended on 
part 1, and to Dr. G. A. C. Herklots of Hongkong University for preparing 
a list of corrigenda for the Chinese characters in part r. 
PLANTS OUTWARDS AND INWARDS. 
As in 1929, a considerable demand for seeds continued from other bota¬ 
nical institutions in many parts of the world, and 731 packets of seeds w r ere 
distributed to 35 institutions. In exchange seeds were received from Botanic 
Gardens at Basle, Bonn, Breslau, Buitenzorg, Calcutta, Cambridge, Coimbra, 
Darmstadt, Edinburgh, La Mortola, Peradeniya, Saigon, Tokyo and Upsala, 
the Hawaaian Sugar Planters’ Association, the Station Agricole de ITvoloina, 
Tamatave, the Director of Agriculture, Bermuda, the Canal Zone Experiment 
Gardens, Panama, the Arnold Arboretum, and the Lancetilla Experiment 
Station, British Honduras. 
Plants were exchanged with the Royal Botanic Gardens Rew, the Hene- 
ratgoda Botanic Gardens, Ceylon, the Superintendent, Fraser’s Hill, the 
Department of Agriculture, Ruala Lumpur, aiid Dr. H. L. Lyon, h.s.p.a., 
Honolulu. Dr. Lyon sent a large collection of fine new varieties of Hibiscus, 
many of which are growing well in the gardens nursery, in exchange for 
plants of Vanda Miss Joaquim. Orchids were exchanged with Mr. W. Julian 
of Queensland, Mr. R. Dury of Lyons, and Messrs. Vincke Dujardin and 
Co. of Bruges sent some orchid plants in exchange for palm seeds. 
Thanks are again due to Mr. J. Laycock for the gift of more than 100 
orchid plants; and to Mr. A. C. McLeod for the gift of numerous orchid 
plants to the Waterfall Gardens. The following are also thanked for gifts 
of plants and seeds: Mr. B. R. Saheb, Mr. O. F. Ricketts, Mrs. Clemens, 
Mrs. Withers Green, Mr. Bedford (Siam), Father Cardon (Taiping),' 
Mr. Steele (Johore), Mrs. S. Anthony (Penang) and Mr. Ltm Chin Guan 
(Penang). 
At Singapore 925 trees and shrubs were provided from the Gardens for 
Government buildings and new compounds; at Penang 390 trees and shrubs 
were provided for similar purposes and 279 young trees for Municipal Road¬ 
side planting. 
