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Dear Milsum, 
Thank you very much indeed for so kindly sending 
the negatives, I meant to acknowledge them as soon 
as they arrived but I was in the midst of a proolem 
about which I wanted your advice and so I have delayed. 
2. The plates of the Dryooalanops, the Casuarina 
and the Cherry tree will be most useful and I hope 
to be able to make the prints this month. 
3 . My problem is about the wild fruit tree called 
"Tampoi M . Burkill, following Ridley, following 
Hooker, has identified our malayan ’Tampoi' with 
Baccaurea malayana . I find however that our malayan 
"Tampoi" is B.griff i thii and B.reticulata and that 
the specimens which Hooker referred to B.malayana 
are a totally different undescribed species representing 
a new section of Baccaurea and not a 'Tampoi * 
B.malayana is Hedycarpus malayanus Jack described in 
18^5 as a well-known Sumatran fruit called ,f Buah Tampoe". 
After carefully consulting Jack's original description, 
I conclude that none of our 3 pecies can be made to 
fit the Sumatran "Tampoi" which is a botanical curiosity 
without herbarium specimen and never* since discovered! 
4 . I wondered if you had ever studied the "Tampoi" 
and particularly, if you had any trees at Serdang 
or knew of any from which specimens could be obtained. 
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J.JN,MiiBum, Ksq. 
. , inx .1 a xui , jo'i. , 
Agriculturist, 3.S.: 
Serdang, 
SSLAh’GOR. 
