324 xci. apoCynace^e. [ Willughbeia. 
tube cylindric dilate in middle, *25 in. long, lobes as long or longer, 
linear-oblong. Fruit globose or oblong, light green or orange. 
Seed, testa violet, inside white, tinted violet. Hab. Common in 
thick forests. Singapore, Garden Jungle; Changi; woodlands. 
Johor, Panchur. Malacca, Ayer Panas (Curtis); Bukit Sadanen 
(Derry). Negri Sembilan, Rantau (Cantley) ; Perak, Waterfall; 
Thaiping and Selama (Wray) ; Ulu Bubong (Kunstler). Penang, 
Balik Pulau ; Waterfall. Kelantan, Kwala Lebir (Gimlette). 
Fig. 105. — Willughbeia firma. 
Lankawi (Curtis). Disirib. Sumatra, Borneo. Native names: 
Getah Singarip; Grip; Gegrip; Grit; Gegrit; Gegrip hitam; 
Gegrip Besih; Gegrip putih; Gegrip merah; Akar Sampat; Akar 
Gam or Gehan. Use: The best of all jungle rubbers, formerly 
collected extensively all over the peninsula (see Agric. Bull. ser. 
i. 241), and the latex of fruit or stem used in Kelantan for Puru 
(Yaws). (Gimlette, Journ. Trop. Med. Puru of Malay Peninsula.) 
Easily distinguished from W. coriacea by the smaller, closer-nerved and 
thinner leaves, the nerves thinner, not flattened. The latex if nibbed between 
