Identifier: agriculturalbull02unse (find matches)
Title: Agricultural bulletin of the Straits and Federated Malay States. New series
Year: 1902 (1900s)
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Subjects: Agriculture Agriculture
Publisher: Singapore : Gov. Print. Off.
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gationsare supplied as a rule, without charge, but should special expensesbe incurred in connection with any such reports, or with the com-mercial value of particular materials or manufactured products,which the Council do not consider themselves warranted in meet-ing, a statement of such outlays will be furnished, for repayment,when the Reports are supplied. Should an investigation or reportof exceptional character be asked for by a Government Depart-ment, an estimate? of the attendant expenses will be submitted,with a view to ascertain whether authority for such expenditurewill be given. 11 To assist Merchants, Planters and others who may wish to availthemselves of the advantages offered asset forth above, the Govern-ment have appointed Mr. C CURTIS, F. L. S., Botanie Gardens,Penang, to act as Agent; to whom all enquiries should be made,and al) materials requiring scientific or technical examination, orcommercial valuation should be submitted for forwarding to theImperial Institute.
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AG RIC UL I U R A L BULLET! N Of THE STRAITS AND FEDERA T ED MALAY STATES. No. 4.) APRIL, 1903. (Vol. II. RATTANS. Plate V. The Rattans of commerce consist of the woody stems of a va-riety of climbing palms belonging to the section Calamear, and tothe genera Calamus, Doemonorops, Korthalsia and Plectocomia, towhich may be added the less known genera Mvrialepis, Plectoco^miopsis and Ceratolobus. They are unisexual plants, forming tuftsof stems some of which attain an enormous length. The leaves are al-ways pinnate, with broad and narrow leaflets, often hairy, and armedwith recurved hooks on the back of the midrib, which is in manycase= prolonged into a leafless veryt horny portion, the flagellum bywhich the plant climbs. In a certain set of rattans the flagellum is nota portion of a leaf, but an independent organ rising from the axil ofa sheath and apparently an abortive flower spike. The stem of theplant is covered with leafsheaths, armed strongly with sharp flat-tened thorns. The inf

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