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trees fringing the stream. The leaves are small, shiny, and have a 

 reddish tint when young. The bark is about three-eighths of an inch 

 thick, and dark brown in colour, moderately rough. 



The flowers are white, and the fruit is sweet, and eaten by the 

 Malays. Its gutta is like Taban Sutra in appearance, and is col- 

 lected by scoring the bark, catching the sap, and boiling it, until it 

 coagulates. A tree measuring two feet and eight inches in circum- 

 ference, at three feet from the ground, and 881 feet to the first 

 branch, that I had felled, gave Cy\ oz. of gutta. 



Getali Sundik. Payena . 



This is a tree much resembling Payena Leerii, but differing from 

 it in the leaves being longer in proportion to their breadth, the 

 fruit and seed smaller, and the bark, which is reddish-brown, is 

 only about one-half the thickness, and consequently the yield of 

 gutta is much less (the yield seeming to be in proportion to the 

 thickness of the bark) . This variety, therefore, is less valuable com- 

 mercially than the thick-barked kinds. I may observe that it 

 grows in swamps, like the Leerii. 



O^tali Gfahru? Bassia . 



This is one of the Bassias, nearly allied to B. Motleyana ; and 

 it grows on the hills up to an elevation of 2,600 feet. The bark is 

 light grey, and the wood seems to be of good quality. 



The leaves are dark green, and the flowers white. 



The fruit is reddish-brown, and covered with silky hairs, like 

 that of Dicliopsis Gutta. 



The style is often persistent. Its gutta is white and hard, and 

 is used only for mixing with better classes of gutta. 



There are several other Bassias which yield gums that are used 

 for mixing also ; but I have not as yet obtained any botanical spe- 

 cimens of them. 



Kayu Jelutong. Dyera . 



The gum from this tree, is known as GPtah Jelutong, and is em- 

 ployed in the same way as that from the various kinds of Bassia. 



