32 MALAY PLANT NAMES. 



Malay words. I have not incorporated these however as there 

 is no reason to think that they belong- to the Malay of the 

 Peninsula. 



A list of Malay plant names from Maingay's manuscripts 

 at Kev7 was published in the Kew Bulletin 1890 p. 112-134, but 

 in many cases these names were miscopied so as to be un- 

 identifiable and in some are evidently wrong-ly identified with 

 the plants. 



In Jack's descriptions of Malay plants (Malayan Miscellan- 

 ies, Bencoolen 1820-22) reprinted in the miscellaneous papers 

 of this Society, Series II. Vol. II. pp. 209-295, several native 

 names are given and these where they are g-iven for Penang 

 plants I have incorporated, adding Jack as authority, some of 

 these being otherwise quite unknown to me and perhaps erron- 

 eously applied. 



From this list I have excluded some Persian and Hindu 

 words, which have been included in some Malay Dictionaries 

 and Vocabularies, as the plants intended either do not occur 

 here at all or if they do are known under some other name. 

 Javanese words usually in use here for cultivated plants, are 

 excluded unless often employed, or used for well-knownp lants. 

 I have added a few words which are almost certainly Sakai^ 

 when I have been able to come across them. 



The list is very far from perfect, for not only have I been 

 unable to procure many names from some of the Native States, 

 but also a number of plants for which I have native names, 

 are either as yet unidentified botanically or absolutely undes- 

 cribed. Many of the timber trees and the rattans too have 

 names only used for the trade product, and it is by no means 

 easy in our present state of knowledge to identify accurately 

 the prepared timber with the tree from which it came, which 

 often has in the jungle an entirely different native name. 



Most plants have more than one name, and many have a 



