Mr. Chi><> Chonic Kliav, nf the Bldiidiu Mine, Suui;'<n Kravoug. 

 Au oxrtiiiiuatiou of those proves that the plant belongs to the order 

 Combretaeeae ami is Conibretum snndiacum. It is thus desci'ibed iu 

 the " Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula," l\v Lieiit.- 

 Colonel Sir Greorge Kiug, k.c.i.e., f.r.s., page 387 : 



"3. CoMBHETUM suNDiAcuM {Miq. Fl. hid. Bat., Suppl. 327). — A 

 very powerful climber ; young branches closely covered with deciduous 

 scales. Leaves opj^osite, thinly coriaceous, broadly elliptic to elliptic- 

 orbicular, abruptly and very shortly acuminate; the base rounded, 

 raivly slightly cuueate, sometimes unequal-si<led ; l)oth surfaces gla- 

 brous, the upper punctate and with very sparse scales, the lower with 

 the scales more numerous and white with dark centres ; main nerves 

 about six pairs, olilique, curving slightly, not prominent on the upper 

 surface, but slightly so on the lower when dry ; length 2.75 to 4 inches, 

 bi'^adth 1.8 to 2.75 inches, petiole .4 to .8 inches. Panicles axillary 

 and terminal, umbellate, longer than the leaves, the branches ending in 

 dense glodose. minutely bracteolate spikes. Calyx-tube about .35 

 inches long, minutely pubescent, not scaly, four-ridged along the ovary, 

 above it cylindric, expanding upwards into a funnel-shaped mouth 

 with four narrowly triangular-acuminate reflexed lobes ; calyx inside 

 with a ring of hairs at its base, but not filled with long coarse hair, 

 narrowly ovate and very acute in bud. Petals much shorter than the 

 calyx-lobes, oval, not clawed, glabrous. Stamens exsei*ted. Fruit 

 about 1 inch long and nearly as broad, with four coriaceous horizon- 

 tally-striate shining wings, and with a few minute scattered scales. 

 Clarke in Hooker, /i/., Fl. Br. Ind. I, 4o8. 



" Malacca ; Maingay, 648. Singapore ; Hullett, 89 ; Ridley, 4668. 

 Perak ; Scortechini, 1016. King's Collector, 4360, 4452, 5864, 7827 ; 

 Wray, 4272. 



" Readily recognised by its panicled inflorescence, the branches being 

 uml^ellate and each ending in a globose spike of flowers with very 

 acute buds which are not scaly." 



Its Malay name is given In- Messrs. N. Ridley and C. Curtis in 

 *• Miilay Plant Names " in the " Journal of the Straits Branch of the 

 Royal Asiatic Society," No. 38, p. 58, as akar yeyambar. Two 

 species of the genus, Combretum decandrum and C. nanum, are men- 

 tionerl by Sir George Watt in " A Dictionarj' of the Economic Pro- 

 ducts of India " as being used in native Indian medicine, but without 

 any details as to their properties or the diseases for which they are 

 pres<:Til><-d 



The method of preparing the drug for use is as follows: The 

 branches of the plant are collected in the jungles around Kuala 

 Lumpur and brought in. It at first fetched M- per pikul ( 133! lbs. ) 



