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^Gth November, 
Dear Dr van Steenis, 
Thank you very much for your prints, which are 
of great interest, Casuarina is a new 'family of 
stilted trees' to me. Seeing what excellent prints 
Ben Heng can make, I think I must patronise him, only 
I always use plates and, as you say, it may be ri 3 ky 
to send them. That the Canarium should be so stilted 
puzzles me because I have found only one. Burseracenes 
tree with stilts in our swampy forest, though there 
are nearly two dozen kinds without stilts. This 
stilted one is a species of Canarium Ahich I have not 
been able to identify. 
As regards the photographs of rare and local 
plant communities, I believe I have several which might 
be of interest. I will look them up and send you prints. 
I want, also, to ask you about a botanical problem 
that I have just been investigating. tfhat is the 
"Tampoi"? A tree, said to be well-known in Sumatra 
as the ' Buah Tampoe f , was described as Hedycarpus 
malayanus Jack in Trans,Linn,Soc,XIV 1825 , p. 118 . 
Hooker, (F.B,I. V, p, 57 ^) transferred Jack's species 
to Baccaurea and identified with it two collections 
from Malaya. Ridley, then Burkill and others have 
followed Hooker and called the ma layen 'Tampoi 
Baccaurea malayana . I find this is wrong. 
Dr C.G.G.J.van Steenis, 
The Hebarium, 
Botanic Gardens, 
Buitenzorg, JAVA. 
