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30th November, 
6 
Dear* Symington, 
I hear you have returned from leave♦ I hope you 
had a good time and are refreshed and fortified so that 
you can withstand a bombardment of questions which I 
hope presently, in the space of a few months to level 
at you concerning the Malay names of common trees! I 
apologise for starting at once oefore you have had time 
even to settle down. 
I have been investigating the question of what is 
that Tampoi. Ridley, Burkill and others say Baccaurea 
malayana on Hooker’s authority from the F.B.I. vol.V 
p.3/4* I have carefully examined our specimens of 
B. malayana . which contain two sheets of Kunstler's 
quoted by Hooker, and compared them with Jack’s description 
°f Hedycarpus malayanus - f Buah Tampoi' of Sumatra. 
Briefly my conclusions are 
Jack's species, H.malayanus f is a botanical curiosity 
never since discovered and without a herbarium specimen. 
2 . The malayan specimens referred to B.malayana by 
Hooker and Burkill represent a totally different and 
new species for which it will be necessary to make a 
new section of Baccaurea. 
3. The Malayan "Tampoi M is B.gri ff ithii and B.re ti culata . 
^Our specimens of B.reticula ta have oeen muddled with 
* 
several other species). 
C. F. Symington, &sq., 
Forest Research Institute, 
Kepong, SELANGOR. 
