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RHODOLEIA CHAMPIONI, HOOK.

This very rare tree was supposed until 1894 to be represented by only four trees which grew in the Happy Valley, but in that year Mr. TUTCHER found several other small trees of it on the opposite-- the southern--side of the hill on which they grew, and now he has recently discovered quite a large number, about 100 of various sizes ranging down to small seedlings, not far away from the same place. In my Annual Report for last year I mentioned that Dr. A. HENRY had found the same tree in Yunnan.

INTERCHANGE OF PLANTS AND SEEDS.

The chief donors were:

Acclimatizing Association, South California. Acclimatization Society, Queensland. Botanic Gardens, Bangalore.

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British Guiana.

Jamaica.

Nagpur, India. Penang. Peradeniya.

Royal, Calcutta. Saharanpur.

Trinidad..

Octacamund.

Atherton, Mrs. J. M., Honolulu.

Barton, J.

Belilios. C.M.G., Hon. E. R.

The following were the principal recipients :-

Acclimatizing Association, Southern California. Acclimatization Society, Queensland.

Agri. & Bot. Dept., Sierra Leone.

Atherton, Mrs. J. B., Honolulu.

Armstrong, Mrs.

Banage Garden, Cairo.

Barton, J.

Botanic Gardens, Bermuda.

Brisbane.

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Nagpur. Royal, Calcutta,

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Sydney.

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Blake, G.C.M.G., H.E. Sir Henry A. Dammann & Co., Messrs., Italy. Edwards, C. C., Amoy. Forbes, J. M.

Graham, Mrs. Hahn, A. Henry, Dr. A. Hodgins, Capt. Humphreys, H. Jeffreys, Mrs.

May, C.M.G., Hon. F. H. Roebelin, C., Bangkok.

Veitch, Messrs. J., & Son, London.

Botanic Gardens, Tokyo.

Dammann & Co., Messrs., Italy.

Dept. of Agriculture, Zanzibar. Edwards, C. C., Amoy. Gascoigne, Mrs.

Graham, Mrs.

Hance, T. A. W., Lung Chow. H.R.H. Prince Henry of Prussia. Hodgins, Captain, S.S. Haiching. May, C.M.G.. Hon. F. H. Milwaukee Public Museum. Roebelin, C., Bangkok. Romano, A. G.

State Gardens, Baroda.

The Administrator, Wei-lai-wei.

PLANT SALES,

Two thousand eight hundred and ten (2,810) plants were sold and they realized $626.60 only, a very slight reduction on the previous year's sales, although the sale of plants to places outside the Colony was discontinued. Orders for plants from the Coast Ports of China and other foreign places had increased so much that it was found necessary in the latter part of the previous year to discontinue supplying plants outside the Colony, otherwise local requirements could not have been met.

LOAN OF PLANTS.

The number of plants lent for decoration for public purposes was 4,235 for which $223.71 was received; these are slight increases on the 1898 transactions.

ZOOLOGICAL SECTION.

Since the new aviary was finished a large number of birds have been presented and purchased, which have furnished the new structure and been a great attraction to visitors.