140 MALAY POISONS AND CHABM CURES 



2 J inches long and 1| inches wide. The shell contains 

 a soft oily kernel enclosed in a thin, dry, mealy pericarp. 

 He found that on extraction with petroleum ether the 

 kernels yielded 59 '4 per cent, of oil or fat, or 26 per cent, 

 calculated on the whole seed. The raw seed is hitter, 

 and probably contains an alkaloid or some glucosidal 

 substance (Ref. 9). Akar klapayang has been confused 

 with kepayaiig by natives of Selangor ; but the two 

 plants are quite different, and should be carefully 

 differentiated, because each is of commercial value. As 

 shown above, klapayang is a wild jungle climber 

 belonging to the natm-al order Cucnrbitacese, while 

 kepayang is a cultivated village tree (Pangium edule, 

 Reinwdt., Btsacese) (which see, p, 200). In the Malay 

 Archipelago akar klapayang is known as arenj kalajar 

 hadak (Sunda), hatavg (Celebes), hihcngkieng (Sumatra) ; 

 and in Pahang it is said that " twenty seeds give a 

 bottle of oil, to get which the seeds are cut into pieces 

 and placed in the sun to dry for two days ; the pieces 

 are then put into a bag made of tree bark and pressed 

 by hand " (Le Clercq). 



BAMBOO 



The very fine hairs — almost black specks — found on 

 the sheath leaves of the young sprouts of certain 

 bamboos, also the fine hatr-like pieces of bamboo seen 

 when a diy bamboo cane is spUt or broken, are pro- 

 minent among Malay poisons. They are called miang 

 f&hong, or m, bnhh {miang, fine vegetable hairs ; rehong, 

 the shoot of the bamboo ; bnloht bamboo), and are 

 obtained by the criminal from bamboos with edible 

 shoots, such as the buhh duri of Pahang (Bambusa 

 spinosa, Bl. — Gramine^e) and the buhh minyakf which is 

 used for making baskets (Oxytenanthera sinuata, 

 Gamble — Gramineje). Hans from Dendrocalamus 



