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Male flowers, sweetly scented, in depauperated panicles or racemes, about 9 inches 
long, pendulous from the old wood, on the branches, and more rarely on the trunk of the 
tree. Тһе lateral branches of the panicle are very short when present. Rhachis light 
green, terete, pubescent. Bracts lanceolate acuminate, closely appressed to the peduncles, 
$ inch long, pubescent. Peduncles flattened, ending in three or fewer pedicelled flowers. 
Bracteoles minute, lanceolate-acuminate. Perianth of 4 or 5 unequal lobes, ovate 
obtuse, connivent, lemon-yellow, pubescent outside, mealy inside. Stamens 5 to 7, very 
small, glabrous; filaments short, translucent, flattened, broadest at base, tapering 
upwards. Anther-cells separate, oval. Rudimentary ovary longer than the stamens, 
pillar-shaped, enlarged at the tip and capped, very pubescent with white hairs. 
Female inflorescence racemose; rhachis much thicker than in male inflorescence. 
Flowers very much larger, 1 inch across; pedicels short and thick, terete, pubescent, 
$ inch long.  Perianth-lobes connivent, very unequal, 5 to 8, light green, fleshy ovate, 
or ovate-lanceolate, blunt. Rudiments of stamens absent. Ovary globose, minutely 
pubescent. Stigmas sessile, thick, fleshy, recurved, papillose, white, 5 to 8. 
Fruit oval elliptic, more than an inch long, and $ of an inch thick, rounded at both 
ends, terminated by the very small stigmas, and with the perianth persisting at the base, 
finely pubescent, with a thin buff skin, three-celled, three-seeded. Seeds enclosed in a 
translucent, whitish, sweet pulp, fixed by the apex, convex on one side, and flattened on 
the other. | 
"The fruit is very popular with the natives. It is very sweet and refreshing, having 
somewhat the flavour of grapes. It is greedily devoured by monkeys, civets, and bats. 
I have never seen the Rambai indisputably wild. It is often cultivated, and persists 
long after other signs of cultivation have disappeared, so as to appear really wild. 1 
think, however, it will prove to be a native. 
BACCAUREA PARVIFLORA, Muell. Arg. 
. Common in the Tahan woods. 
This is called by the Malays ** Setambon." 
It is a small straight tree, with hard yellow wood, used for walking-sticks. The leaves 
are dark green ; when young, pink. Тһе male flowers, produced in spikes upon the old 
wood, are pale yellow and scented like cowslips. The females at the base of the stem, so 
plentifully that when in fruit there is quite a large pile of fruits round the base resting 
on the ground. Тһе fruits are fusiform, deep claret-colour, nearly black outside when 
ripe, and quite eatable, though rather sour. 
The tree is very common all through the Peninsula. 
В., вр. | | | 
Evidently an ally of В. parviflora, Muell. Arg., resembling it much in the foliage; but 
the female inflorescence was scattered about on the stem, not piled up at the base; and 
the fruits are larger, light pink, and curiously reticulated. Seeds with dark pink aril. 
Common, Kwala Tembeling woods. I could not get any flowers nor perfectly ripe 
fruits. 
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