Guan Tai. 
427 White til seed, from Shanghai. 
Arachis hypogwa, L. (Legmninosce . ) 
Ground-nuts are often cultivated, chiefly however as food. 
Spec. 21 Ground-nuts, from Perak. 
20a Oil of ground-nuts, from Perak. 
Hodgsonia heterocUta , Cogn. ( Cucurbitacece ). 
A large climbing gourd, not uncommon in Perak and Pahang. 
The fruit is a grey velvety woody gourd of a flattened subglobose 
shape, which contains a number of large oily seeds from which is 
extracted an oil used for rheumatism. 
Spec. 22 Oil of Hodgsonia seeds from Perak. 
23 Seeds „ „ 
Bosnia sp. (Sapotacea;.) 
Ketior (Mai.). 
B 
assia sp. 
Spec. 24a Seeds of ketior, from Larut, Perak. 
24 Oil. 
Surin Oil. 
An oil made from the seeds of a species of Bassia. 
Spec. 32 from Upper Perak. 
DYES. 
Bixa orellana , L. (Bixinece.) 
Kasumba (Mai.). Arnotto. 
The arnotto plant, a native .of South America, has long been 
cultivated in the Malay Peninsula, and may often be found in a 
half-wild state far from present cultivation. The Malays use it 
as a dye for cloth. At the present price of the product, it would 
not repay cultivation, though it grows rapidly and easily from 
seed, and fruits heavily. 
Spec. 39 ' from Malacca. 
39a Pods „ Perak. 
3 9b Seeds „ do. 
Garcinia pidoria, Hanb. ( Guttiferce .) 
Gamboge. 
This is imported from Siam in sticks, but the plant is not cul- 
tivated in the Peninsula. 
Spec. 42 Siam gamboge, imported by Paterson, Simons & Co. 
