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hills, and, the Malays say, will only thrive in sight of water; 

 and those I have seen certainly bear out this idea, for they were 

 all near the bank of some stream, and at an elevation of about 

 500 to 600 feet above sea level. 



It has much the same appearance as the D. Gutta, but the 

 leaves are smaller, and their backs have a yellower shade of brown, 

 and the buttresses are much smaller, and have a concave outline. 

 The bark, which is dark brown, is smooth, and shews, by small 

 oval indentations, the places where the branches have been, when 

 the tree was young. This is a feature I have not noticed in any 

 other gutta. and may, T think, be taken as characteristic. 



The flowers have a reddish tiuge, and the fruit is coated like the 

 backs of the leaves, and is oval in form, and about the size of a 

 mussel plum. 



Its gutta is pale reddish-brown (like Getah Sundik) and the 

 water in which it is boiled does not acquire a red colour. It coa- 

 gulates nearly as quickly as Taban Me rah, aud is collected in the 

 same way. 



The specimens I collected were obtained from the Ulu Kenering, 

 Perak. The tree was 12 inches in diameter at 3 feet from the 

 ground and was in fruit when felled on the 17th August, 1883. 

 The flower was obtained by a Malay about 10 weeks previously. 



Getah Taban JPuteh {White). Dlchopsls Polyantha? 



This tree cannot be told, by its outward appearance, from 

 Bichopsis Gutta, except that its leaves are rather larger. 



It has large buttresses, with, convex tops, and the bark is nearly 

 of the same shade, but rather browner. The fruit also seems to be 

 similar, and the flowers are white ; so that it is not until the tree is 

 felled, that any very distinctive character appears. It is then found 

 that the sap, which is much more copious, does not coagulate 

 quickly, and when it does, it is of a dirty white colour, and has a 

 much higher softening point than any of the other kinds, even 

 boiling water not being sufficiently hot to thoroughly soften it. 

 This tree grows on the hills, up to an elevation of 2,500 feet above 

 sea level. 



