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fruit tree. There are three kinds em which bark can be used, the best 
being that found growing in the e fruit of the tree from which 
inferior bark is obtained i is larger ana is ud by natives as a vegetable. 
The ee which 1 send is from the tree giving the best quality bark. 
The leaves from a young tree are upwards of 2 feet lon ng and hav 
points on des very much like a fig-leaf, but larger. When they are 
.old they lose the shape. and become rounder, smaller, and with plain 
edges, as in eee sent herewith. I tried to press some of the larger 
leaves, but they got too dry in trazsit; I send, however, a piece of one 
partially pressed which will show the shape. I saw the two different 
shaped leaves on the same tree, the large leaves on a young shoot growing 
from the trunk and the smaller leaves on the branches above. I have 
noticed fap same thing in the nee tree 
mbaran tree is, I bel a à speci s of Artocarpus, and I 
Noel we Sir Hugh Low, in his gen Sarawak, its inhabitants and 
productions’ (London 1848), mentions some of the tribes wearing 
clothes made of bark from a species of Artocarpus, which no doubt was 
the timbaran tree. 
“If I am again in the interior I could obtain better specimens, but 
send these meanwhile.’ 
m the specimens received at Kew it has been possible to identify 
the saan furnishing £izibaran bark as being very near to Artocarpus 
elastica, Reinw. 
Dr. Stapf, to whom the specimens have been referred, thus reports 
pon them :— 
“ The large leaf is, in my opinion, identical with two small leaves 
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* tree ARER tough hark cloth and fibres for cordage, &c., Labuan and 
* Bor These two specimens are named Artocarpus elastice, Reinw., 
and seh perfectly with the specimens named thus from De Vriese’s 
herbarium. They belong rdc iai to the same plant of which Burbidge 
states in his book ‘The Gardens of the Sun,’ p. 155, tough bark cloth 
is made by tbe natives on the Limbang and he Lawas and the Tam- 
passek River. He calls the cloth * Chawat, a name iss is also 
attached to one of the specimens of bark cloth | in “the Muse 
* 4. elastica, however, is a very doubtful species desc bel froin leaves 
and male inflorescences only. The branch having entire leaves, and 
the fruit approach on the other hand Mist ea to those of A. Blumei, 
Trée (=A. pubescens, Bl. not Willd.) which I believe to be identical 
with A. Künstleri, King, a species distributed widely throughout 
West Malaya, and in the Philippines. A. Blumei is mentioned also 
by Burbidge (1. c., pp. 256, 294), and he gives ‘ tartppe’ as its vernacu lar. 
name with t Sue MM evidently another form of spelling of ‘tarap’ 
n Mr. Wises rt. 
* 'The only e between A, Blumei and the timbaran tree is in 
the fruit which is globose in a latter instead of oblong, and in the 
direction of the ‘apices of the anthocarps which are generally curved 
upwards instead of penas a very slight difference indee 
* Tt appears from Mr. Wise's report that both forms of leaves may 
occur on the same tree, a statement which is perfectly in accord with a 
moreover, § erede ep the fact that Reinwardt yest ‘terap’ (truep 
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