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petioles ^ to 1 inch in length ; flowers unknown. Guita 



Serapit Menungan is said to have white flowers, and the 

 round-fruited Serapit yellow ones. All three kinds bear 

 edible fruits of a clear orange yellow, and these are readily 

 distinguished by marked variations in size and form. These 

 fruits consist of an outer skin or rind as thick as that of 

 an ordinary orange, but very tender and brittle when ripe, 

 milky sap or gutta exuding in drops from the fractured 

 surfaces ; this when tasted being intensely bitter. Inside 

 the rind are sections of apricot-coloured pulp, crushed 

 closely together, but easily separable, each of which con- 

 tains a single soft leathery-coated seed, the size of that of 

 a scarlet runner bean. 



Full grown fruits attain a diameter of 2 to 4 inches. 



* Fig. 1. Gutta Serapit Menungan. Fruit clear orange 

 yellow, 3 to 4 inches in diameter, distinctly pear-shaped and 

 edible. 



* Fig. 1 is a reduced representation of the kind known to 

 the Kadayans on the Lawas river as Gutta Serapit Marnmga n 

 or Gutta Manungan Serapit, and is known by its corrugated 

 stem having well marked nodes 15 to 18 inches apart, and 

 by its pear-shaped fruits. By the Muruts it is called Boi 

 Belebit. On the Limbang river the fruit is called Jintawan, 

 and in Perak Senggerip or Gutta SenggZrip. (See Murton's 

 Report). 



* Fig. 2. Gutta Serapit. Fruit averaging 3 inches diame- 

 ter, orange-yellow, orange-shaped and edible. 



* Fig*. 2 is a reduced sketch of a round-fruited species 

 or variety, Laving stems and leaves very similar to the last 

 and yielding apparently the same milky exudation, but it 

 is said to produce but little gutta, and is seldom collected. 

 The Kadayans call it Serapit and the Muruts Boi Kalang. 



A third kind, known as Menungan Manga (Kadayan) 

 Katawah (Murut) has much thicker stems than the two 

 last, covered with light cork coloured bark, but slightly 

 corrugated, and the fruit is round like the last, but rarely 

 exceeding 2 inches in diameter. The light corky bark and 

 small fruits distinguish it from the others, and unlike 



* Bark of a reddish colour. 



* It has not been found practicable to re-produce these illustrations, 



