617 / 56 . 
10 th December 1 , 
6 
Your Ref.No.2 in Agric. 1 89 / 55 . 
Sir, 
I have the honour to acknowledge your letter 
and to thank you for your assistance# I snail oe 
glad to receive specimens - leaves, flowers or 
fruits - whenever you may oe able to obtain them* 
As regards the Tampoi, I have gone carefully 
into the question and I find that the Tampoi in 
Malaya is two species"? Baccaurea Grif fi th!! and 
B,reticulata . The identification of our Tampoi 
with B»ma laya na is a mistake of Ridley's and Burkill's. 
B»rjalayana is a Sumatran fruit-tree callec 1 Tampoi, 
ctescrioed in 18*5 and never again discovered: the 
description of it does not agree with any of our 
malayan species of Baccaurea. If you could send 
leaves of the Kedah Tampoi I think I could identify 
them with certainty. 
I think that Taban or Tebau is a Pahang name 
for a kind of Tampoi. Unfortunately #e are still 
very uncertain about the use of Malay names because 
there has been much confusion in the botanical 
identification of species of Baccaurea. 
B. yelutina appears to be a rare species known 
only from the neighbourhood of Gunong Angsi and 
Gunong Semangkok. It has oblong leaves like the 
Principal Agricultural Officer, 
n /y/\ KEDAH. 
