University of Illinois at Chicago 
PLANTS OF JAVA 
FLACOURTIACEAE 
Flacourtia inermis Roxb. 
Det. By: A. McDonald, January 5, 1993 
Field Char: Cultivated tree in yards and streets 
of Taman Jaya. Tree to 10 m; trunk to 30 cm 
diam., cylindrical; fruit red, sweet and 
bitter. 
Notes: Fruit edible- people & livestock. 
Locality: West border of Ujung Kular Reserve, 
near Taman Jaya, mouth of Taman Jaya River by 
seaside. Littoral and mangrove estuary. 
Dominants: Cocos, Canetum, Ardisia, Rhizophora, 
etc. 
Habitat: Roads and yards of Taman Jaya. 
0-5 m,006°12’S X 105°30’E 
Local Names: ""Lobi-lobi"" 
A. McDonald & Afriastini 3357, May 16, 1992 
This is a voucher specimen for 
anticancer and anti-AIDS screening 
NCI Sample Number(s): U44Z3595-S, U44Z3596-T 
U44Z3597-U, U44Z3598-V. 
Collected under the sponsorship of: U.S. National Cancer 
Institute, University of Illinois at Chicago, Arnold 
Arboretum (Harvard University), Field Museum of 
Natural History and Herbarium Bogoriense, LIPI. 
Please notify Field Museum Herbarium of any new 
determination of this collection, specifying that 
it is a University of Illinois at Chicago voucher. 
