THE FLORA OF SINGAPORE, 49 
Pyrcnarie acuminata Planch, A small tree with inconspicuous 
white flovers and small globular apple-like green fruits. 
Thick woods. Common, Bukit Timah, Tanglin. 
P. Kunstleri King? Rare, Selitar. 
Gordonia excelsa Bl. A tall tree with flowers like those of the 
tea plant but larger. Fruit a long woody capsule con- 
taining thin winged seeds. Rare, Selitar. 
Var. with much larger coriaceous leaves, larger flowers 
and fruits. A very different looking tree, but referred by Dr. 
Kine to the same species. Common, Tanglin, Holland Road, 
Jurong, Changi. 
Archytea Vahlii Choisy. ‘*Riang-Riang.” =A bush or tall 
slender tree with pretty pink or white flowers. Common 
in secondary jungle. Tanglin, Jurong, Changi, Blakang 
Mati. 
DIPTEROCARP ED. 
Tall, often vast trees, with straight bare stems. Flowers 
large or small pink white or yellow, very sweetly scented. Fruit 
usually. with two to four of the calyx lobes developed into 
long wings, by which the fruit drifts away from the tree in the 
jungle. The trees usually tlower only once in five years. Very 
few flower annually. They supply good and useful timber, aud 
the resin known as dammar and used for torches, and varnish, 
&c. Some also produce wood oil. 
Dipterocurpus cornu‘us Dyer. * Minyak Keruing.” One of the 
best wood-oil trees, even the fruits are often full of oil. 
Woods, Changi, Bukit Timah. 
D. Hasseltt Bl. Bukit Timah. 
D. grandiflorus Blanco. This has very large winged fruits, 6 
inches or more long, red. Bukit Timah. 
Antsopteru glabra Kurz, ‘* Mersawa.” Garden jungle. 
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A. costata Korth. A gigantic tree with coppery looking leaves. 
Garden jungle, Dalvey, Bidadari. 
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