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Spec. 164 “Bitali” a screen used in fishing made front 
this pal m, from Malacca. 
Arenga Westerhoutii, Griff. ( Palmacece .) 
Langkap (MaL). 
A handsome palm occurring in damp jungles in Malacca, Perak, 
etc. It attains a height of about forty feet, with a grey stem, 
smooth, except for the rings of growth. It produces a fibre much 
like that of A. saccharifera , Lab. A kind of Jew’s Harp, called 
genggong , is made of this palm. 
Spec. 135 Fibre of Langkap, from Larut, Perak. 
Arenga ( ? ) 
Kabong Hutan (Mai.). 
Produces a fibre like that of A. saccharifera. 
Spec. 144 Fibre of Kabong Hutan, from Larut, Perak. 
Areca catechu , L. ( Palmce .) 
The husks of the betel-nut (q. v.) are a waste product from 
the betel-nut plantations, where this palm is cultivated for its 
seed. It does not appear to have been ever put to any use as yet, 
but might be utilized in paper making, etc. The spathes are used 
for making buckets, etc., or wrappings. 
Spec. 136 Husks of betel-nut, from Larut, Perak. 
13 66 Broken do., „ 
136a Fibre, cleaned partly, „ 
131 Areca-nut spathes, from Negri Sembilan. 
Gleichenia linearis , Burm. ( Filices .) 
Resam (MaL). 
An exceedingly abundant fern on the edges of forests, and 
in open country, from the stems of which is prepared a strong 
fibre used for ornamenting the handles of krisses, etc. It is, how- 
ever, troublesome and tedious to extract it, whence it is not much 
used. The stems are also used for pens. 
Spec. 119 Resam fibre, from Negri Sembilan. 
193a Stems of Resam, „ 
193 Pens of Resam, „ 
THATCHES, MATS, &c. 
The native houses are thatched and often walled with leaves of 
different plants. The best of these are those of the sago palm — 
Nipah and Menghuang — but when these are unprocurable, the 
other kinds of leaves here mentioned are used. It is possible that 
some of these leaves might be found available for paper-making. 
Actinodaphne sp. ( Laurinece .) 
ELUGUR Gajah (MaL). 
Large hard textured leaves used for thatching. 
Spec. 156 Leaves, from Malacca. 
156a Att^ps, from Malacca. 
Agrostistachys filipendwla) Hook. (Enphorhiacece ) , 
