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Pyrtnaria acuminata Planch. A small tree with inconspicuous 



white flowers and small globular apple-like green fruits. 

 Thick wo3ds. Common, Bukit Timah, Tanglin. 



P. Kunstleri King ? Rare, Selitar. 



Got Ionia excelsa Bl. A tall tree with flowers like those of the 

 tea plant but larger. Fruit a long woody capsule con- 

 taining thin winged seeds. Rare, Selitar. 



Var. with much larger coriaceous leaves, larger flowers 

 and fruits. A very different looking tree, but referred by Dr. 

 -King to the same species. Common, Tauglin, Holland Road, 

 Jurong, Chaugi. 



Archytea Vahlii Choisy. " Riaug-Riang." A bush or tall 

 slender tree with pretty pink or white flowers. Common 

 in secondary jungle. Tanglin, Jurong, Changi, Blakang 

 Mati. 



DlPTEROCARPEiE. 



Tall, often vast trees, with straight bare stems. Flowers 

 large or small pink white or yellow, very sweetly scented. Fruit 

 usually with two to four of the calyx lob_ j s developed into 

 long wings, by which the fruit drifts away from the tree in the 

 jungle. The trees usually flower only once in five years. Very 

 few flower annually. They supply good and useful timber, and 

 the resin known as dammar and used for torches, and varnish, 

 &c. Some also produce wood oil. 



Dipterocarpu< c<>r:iH'u< Dyer. " Minyak Keruiug." One of the 

 best wood-oil trees, even the fruits are often full of oil. 

 Woods, Changi, Bukit Timah. 



D. Hasselii Bl. Bukit Timah. 



U. grandijiorus Blanco. This has very large winged fruits, G 

 inches or more long, red. Bukit Timah. 



Anisoptera glabra Kurz, " Mersawa." Garden jungle. 



J. costata Korth. A gigantic tree with coppery looking leaves. 

 Garden jungle, Dalvey, Bidadari. 



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