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The other members of the orange family in Malaysia deserving 

 of some notice are, first, Murraya exotica, L. (Malay, Kamiming 

 japan), which is found all over south Asia, Java, Timor, and the 

 Moluccas ; valued for its white fragrant flowers and small succu- 

 lent fruits. The tree, however, and another species, M. sumatrana, 

 E-oxb., are valued on account of the wood, though seldom growing 

 high, and the stems rarely exceeding a diameter of eight inches. 

 The wood is pale yellow, grained with black, in quality much 

 resembling box, and even finer, with a closer fibre, excellent for 

 turners' work. The best grows in Menado, Celebes. Malays 

 attach great value to this wood to make scabbards and orna- 

 mental boxes. 



Cookia punctata is another member of the orange family, the 

 fruit of which is much esteemed. It is a small orange, growing in 

 bunches, extensively used in preserves by the Chinese, who call it 

 Wampee. It is the Wilde-lansen of Yalentyn, and Kibecha puti 

 of the Malays, or Ki-bejek-bodas of the Sundanese. 



Feronia elephantum, Corr., the Elephant Tree of India has a 

 fruit about the size of an apple, when ripe green outside and 

 yellow within, one-celled, with numerous seeds immersed in a 

 fleshy edible pulp contained in a hard rough woody rind. The 

 pulp is valued for preserves, besides being esteemed for its 

 medicinal qualities. Altogether the tree is very useful. Lac is 

 obtained from it, and it yields a gum like Gum Arabic. The 

 yellowish wood, though rather coarsely fibrous and said not to be 

 durable, is heavy, close-grained and hard, and takes a fine polish. 

 The leaves smell like anise. From the unripe fruit a sour liquor 

 named Kujak is made, used as a sambal with curries. 



The Bael-fruit or jEgle marmelos, Corr., (Maja Malay, Mojo 

 Javanese, the Slijm-appel-boom of the Dutch) has a world-wide 

 reputation as a remedy for dysentery and diarrhoea. It is a tree 

 from 30 to 40 feet high, much cultivated on account of the many 

 medicinal qualities attributed to the fruit. It is thorny and leaf- 

 shedding, with thick, greyish, smooth bark, and rather large, 

 white, poor flowers ; fruit woody, varied in shape, smooth, with 



