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P. Maingayi, Dunn, nom. nov. ; Millettia Maingayi, Baker, in 
Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. (1876), 110; Prain |. ¢. 364. 
Mavay Peninsuna. Perak, King’s Collector, 8759 ; Selangor 
(fide Prain); Singapore, Maingay, 605; Hallett, 145; Ridley. 
XXII.—BALATA. 
Mimusops bidentata, DC. 
(M. Balata, var. Schomburghii, Pierre: Sapota Mulleri, Bl.) 
J. M. Hivurer. 
This is one of the more important products of the natural order 
Sapotaceae, which includes the Gutta trees of Malaya and also 
many oil-bearing seeds of considerable economic value. n the 
authority of Dr. J. Huber,* the above is the only species definitely 
known to afford the Balata of commerce, though it is possible and 
indeed probable that other nearly allied species, natives of Dutch 
Guiana and the Lower Orinoco may also yield this product. 
Balata is the inspissated juice of the Bullet or Bully tree, a large 
forest tree of Tropical America growing to a height of one hundred 
and twenty feet with, usually, a large spreading head, and a trunk 
* Arvores de borracha e de Balata da regido amazonica, pelo Dr. J. Huber, 
Boletim du Museu Goeldi, Dec. 1904, vol. iv., p. 415. 
