AGRICULTURAL BULLETIN 
OF THE 
STRAITS 
AND 
FEDERATED MALAY STATES. 
No. n.] SEPTEMBER, 1902. [VOL. 1. 
FRUITS OF THE MALAY PENINSULA , — Continued. 
MELIACE/E. 
The best local fruits of this order are the Sentol and Kechapi, 
(. Sandoricum ) and the Duku and Langsat ( Lansium ). 
The Sentol, Sandoricum. indicum , is a big though not often a 
lofty tree, with small creamy white flowers and large round yellow 
fruit enclosing several seeds wrapped in a rather scanty sweet 
white pulp. The tree is common all over the cultivated country, 
and often to be seen along roadsides. It fruits in July. 
The fruit is rather poor and seldom used except by natives, but 
it is said to make a very delicate jelly when boiled down. 
The Kechapi, Sandoricum radiatum , King, differs from the Sen- 
tol in its more pubescent leaves and botanically by stigmas being 
united and radiating with recurved points whereas in the Sentol the 
stigmas are quite free. , \ 
The fruit resembles that of the Sentol but is more acid, and 
with less pulp, ft i.s wild in the Peninsula and attains a great size 
in the forests. It is considered an inferior fruit by the natives on 
account of its acidity. 
The Langsat, Lansium domesticum , Jack, is a moderate sized 
tree with light coloured bark. The leaves are rather large with 
broad leaflets, slightly pubescent on the backs. The flowers are 
borne on the old wood and branches in small racemes, I hey are 
small and yellow. The fruit is about i A- inch long elliptic or 
globose, with a thin buff coloured rind, enclosing two or three 
thin green seeds with clear white sweet pulp. The rind contains 
a certain quantity of white latex. The tree appears to be a native 
of the. Peninsula as I have met with it in forests in Malacca, Se- 
langor and elsewhere, and it is also much cultivated especially in 
Malacca. The fruit is ripe in July and August. 
The Duku, differs in the thicker rind of the fruit, quite free from 
the sticky latex. The pulp is sweeter and the fruit on the whole 
rather smaller. It appears usually to fruit earlier in the year. It is 
abundant in Malacca and is cultivated elsewhere, A good quantity 
of Dukus are regularly imported from Java into Singapore. 1 he 
Javanese strain- being a very good one and the fruit cheap. 
