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of the Hongkong Gardens. It is stated that the leaves are "charred" 

 and a decoction as of tea made from them. Beside the scraps 

 forwarded from Kuala Lumpur above mentioned we have received 

 samples from Dr. Lim Boon Keng, Mr. F. Dent, Mr. DUNN and 

 Aniff the Gardener at Kuala Lumpur. None bear a trace of flowers 

 or fruit, consisting simply of sticks and leaves, and these belong 

 to at least three kinds of plants. The one which seems to be the 

 correct Kuala Lumpur plant, as leaves of it come in all the collections 

 except the one from Hongkong is a scrambling or sarmentose shrub, 

 with half-woody stems with a hollow centre, and no thicker than a 

 rather slender penholder. The leaves are elliptic narrowed a little 

 at the base with a nearly blunt tip, about 6 inches long and three 

 inches wide or smaller thinly coriacious quite glabrous and with 

 about 8 pairs of main nerves which join in loops some way from 

 the edge of the leaf. The petiole is a quarter of an inch long or 

 stipulate the 



rather more. The leaves 



whole plants glabrous except the petioles and shoots of you: 

 wn.ch are slightly scurfy. This was all I was able to make out oi 

 the scraps sent, but Mr. Carruthers has identified it as Combretum 

 bundaicum and Dr. Treub of Buitenzorg to whom more adequate 

 speamens were sent, also affirmed it was a Combretum. 



Combretum Sundaicum Miq. is a climbing shrub, with foliage as 

 above described and small round heads about an inch or inch and a 

 through of light greenish yellow flowers, and oblong or orbi- 

 cular broad-winged fruit with 4 wings I* inch long. It i! a native 

 of he whole Peninsula and I have splci mens from Singapore, Johor, 

 hi lT g ° r ' Penan S' where ifc § rows scrambling over the 



bushes on the edges of the forests. It is commonly cflled Akar 

 S , a " d Gugamber. being mistaken for one of the wild gam- 

 men In mb l GS m a PP e arance. On a native collected speci- 

 headache " G A n" ^ ^ Collector " Poo §a Tana, fruits used for 

 headache. An all.ed species C. trifoliatum is used as anthelmintic 



manner m a e n th ° d n ° f these dru S s is no * s ^ d in a reliable 



samnle, *T ^ ,T haS ^ ^formation been received with the 

 S>n Hke te * * r° Wever that the sh ™b is charred and a decoc- 



That the drug has an unpleasant t 



stated ,W •" " , s on the user at firs t- It is likewise 



diminish f TT ,s . added - to the bottle, and as the contents 

 prTS °P ium is * dd * d till the bottle 



the^l^TnctL 8 ^ f u 1 erfr T d r h(Ea and pains 5 



eoes off »„H s . ud denly from the drug but this it is said 



very di^ntol'am' ^ ° f the drU 8 is 1 uite » «^ 



