The Botanic Garden—The Croton tiglium—The true Camphor-tree—The Malaleuca Kayu-puteh—Excursion into the interior of the island—Botanical productions—Chinese farms and plantations—Pepper harvest—Plantain-trees—Gambir plantations—Boiling houses—Cultivation and preparation of Gambir—Dense vegetation of the Jungles—Establishment of a Chinese-planter. The Botanic Garden will soon cease to exist. Of the valuable trees it contained a few remain, liable frequently to injury from the inroads and depredations of cattle; and I understand that its locality is to be disposed of in lots for building. A large number of thriving nutmeg and clove-trees laden with fruit, still remain; and a few common tea-trees are seen flourishing, occasionally covered by blossoms, and fruit; several _Bauhinias_, among which the _B. tomentosa_ was conspicuous with its ornamental, delicate, white blossoms and leguminous pods, as well as the _Gardenia_, whose fragrant flowers diffused a powerful scent around some time before the shrub could be discerned; small plants of the Champaca (_Michelia suaveolens_) were also seen, but had not yet attained a sufficient elevation to gratify by the agreeable appearance and odour of its blossoms, which are so much the delight of the Javanese women, and other native females, who perfume and ornament themselves with its flowers. Among others which excite interest to those of the medical profession was the _Croton tiglium_, at that time both in fruit and flower; from the seeds of this shrub the well-known and powerful purgative Croton-oil is obtained; the true camphor-tree (_Dryabalanops Camphora_ of Colebrooke) from Sumatra, which yields the medicinal camphor[62] was also in the garden; this valuable tree was in a very healthy and thriving condition, and was nearly ten feet high; the _Malaleuca Kayu-puteh_, from which the highly-valued cajeput, or, correctly speaking, Kayu-puteh oil is obtained by distillation from the leaves, attracted my attention, and confirmed my previously formed opinion, that a much larger quantity of this oil might be obtained from the foliage of the Australian _Eucalypti-trees_; more especially those which have opposite, rounded, and whitish leaves; the oil produced by them being in considerable quantity. On taking and rubbing the leaves of this _Malaleuca_ it would be very difficult to distinguish it in odour from those of the _Eucalypti_, occasioned by the oil contained in them; this valuable oil may therefore, at but little expense, be distilled in any quantity in the colony of New South Wales; the _genuine_ oil cannot be purchased at Singapore at a cheaper rate than from two and a half to three dollars for a bottle, which contains about a pint of the oil; but there is a large quantity of an adulterated article very generally sold by the natives at this settlement. The tree, which I felt some interest in examining, was about twelve feet high, branchy,