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During Mr. Henderson’s absence, Mr. C. X. Furtado had charge of the 
herbarium in Singapore, and carried out the usual routine work. During the 
year a beginning was made in the arrangement of ah non-Peninsular specimens 
in proper order. Mr. Furtado spent much time working with the herbarium 
of cultivated plants, and devoted study specially to palms, both in the general 
and gardens herbarium. Mr. Furtado also began an index of references to 
Peninsula plants not mentioned in Mr. Ridley’s Flora. The number of sheets 
mounted and laid in during the year was 5,734. Of these 2,292 were from 
institutions outside the Peninsula, 726 were of plants cultivated in the Gardens, 
and 2,716 were of plants collected in the Peninsula, about half of them being 
duplicates received from the Forest Research Institute, Kepong. Thanks are 
due to Mr. C. E. Carr, Dr. A. S. Hitchcock, and to the staffs of the herbaria 
at Kew and Buitenzorg for help in identification of critical and doubtful plants; 
and to the Botanic Gardens at Calcutta and Buitenzorg and the Bureau of 
Science, Manila, for the loan of specimens. 
Mr. Corner studied the Malayan species of Ficus, of the subgenera Covellia 
and Neomorphe, making a careful investigation of their flowers. This work 
has added four new records and one new species to the Flora of the Peninsula. 
The results will be published in 1933. A collection, preserved in alcohol, of the 
receptacles of the Malayan species of Ficus has been started for general use. 
Mr. C. E. Carr spent a good deal of time working in the herbarium on 
Malayan orchids, partly on his own collections and partly on those in the 
Gardens herbarium, and prepared a paper for publication in which 25 new 
species were described. 
The following duplicate herbarium specimens were sent out:—- 
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 
Dr. E. D. Merrill, New York 
Botanic Gardens, Buitenzorg 
Dr. Christensen (ferns) 
Bureau of Science, Manila 
Mr. H. N. Dixon (mosses) 
Prof. Bailey, Ithaca 
Forest Research Institute, Kuala Lumpur 
Ministry of Commerce and Communications, Bangkok 
Arnold Arboretum, U. S. A. 
Mr. W. E. Nicholson (Liverworts) 
Dr. Hitchcock, U. S. A. (grasses) 
Dr. M. Burrett 
Dr. Pulle 
Named fungi to various institutions 
545 
382 
343 
312 
138 
124 
123 
104 
86 
75 
46 
38 
11 
1 
326 
Total .. 2,654 
Hand timber specimens were distributed as follows:— 
Forest Research Institute, Kuala Lumpur .. .. 7 
Bureau of Science, Manila .. • ■ • • 1 
Total .. 8 
Specimens lent for study to other institutions and specialists were as 
follows:— 
Dr. Danser (Umbelliferse, Cornacese, Loranthacese) 
Dr. Hubert Winkler (Urticacese) 
Dr. Foxworthy (Dipterocarpacem) 
Prof. Craib (Siamese plants) 
Mr. I. H, Burkill (Ilex, Sapium, Dioscorea, Sanseviera) 
Dr. Pulle (Evolvulus) 
Dr. Christophersen (Joinvillea) 
Dr. Hitchcock (grasses) 
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 
Botanic Gardens, Buitenzorg 
416 
323 
159 
64 
35 
21 
12 
7 
4 
2 
1,043 
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Total 
