138 THE FLORA OF SINGAPORE. 



A . cuspid at urn Muell. " Sebasab." A big shrub, common in 

 tbick. woods, Bukit Timah, Changi, Bukit Mandai, Teban, 

 Reservoir woods. 



A. fallax Meisn. Not common, Bukit Timah. 



A. alatum Hook. fil. Thick woods, common, Bukit Timah, 

 Changi, Bukit Mandai, Jurong. 



A. hunias Spreng and A. ghaesembiUa Gaertn. mentioned in 



Flora Brit. Ind. I have not seen wild. 



Baccaurea. A genu? of trees of no great size, with flowers in 

 long scented racemes. Fruit usually a capsule, orange 

 colored or brown, splitting and disclosing the seeds en- 

 wrapped in an orange pulp hanging from the placentas ; 

 sometimes the fruit is a berry, and does not split. Most 

 are im re or less eatable though often acid. 



B. parnflora Muell. " Setambun. ,? A small tree with a knot- 



ted stem, and very hard compact yellow wood, used for 

 making sticks. The male flowers are borne in racemes 

 in tufts on the stem, they are yellow and smell like 

 cowslips. The female racemes are borne at the foot of 

 the tree, so as to lie on the ground. The fruit is a 

 spindle-shaped berry, claret colored and eatable though 

 acid. A common plant. Tanglin, Bajau, Chang.i, etc. 



JJ. macrophi/ila Muell. Tree small or medium. Fruits globose 

 dull orange russet, pulp of seed orange, sweet. Garden 

 jungle. Selitar. 



B. moileyana King. " Rambai." A well known fruit, common 

 in cultivation and apparently also wild. 



{B. Malay ana King. '• Tampon" Occurs in cultivation but is 

 not common.) 



B. bracteata Muell. A small tree. Common, Bukit Mandai, 

 Holland Road, Kranji. 



B. latifolia King. Garden jungle (6264). 



B. sp. B. in Flor. Brit. Ind. Garden jungle, Kranji. 



