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FORJLA.R miSES OF PIAMTS IN MUAYA 
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The Rain-tree, the Angsana, the Durian, Vanda Miss 
Joachim and Bougainvillea Mrs* Butt! I think you all know, 
without doubt, the plants which I mean* And if I were to talk 
of kapur, chengai, Hibong, or bakau, our minds would also turn 
to the same subjects* But, if I were to tell you of the 
Mengkulang and Chelagi trees round the padang at Kota Bahru, 
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in the shade of which richshaw-pullers and peons loll, would 
you picture the Bunga Tanjong and the Asam Jawa or Tamarind, 
as the trees are called in most parts of Malaya? And if I 
were to tell you that Buah Pisang is collected from large shady 
trees sixty feet high at Kuala Trengganu, you would think me 
just an ordinary, mistaken traveller who had spent but a few 
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hours ashore gleaning tit-hits for a novel. You may learn that 
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Jambu Gajus is eaten in Singapore, Jambu G-olok in Malacca, and 
Buah Keterek in Kota Bahru, but you might not b.e able to discover 
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so easily that they were merely local names for the Cashew-nut. 
The Custard Apple which I saw last month in a garden in Johore 
was smooth and brown** How can that be, you say, because our 
Custard Apples are green and knobbly? I am afraid we have 
fallen into a bad habit in Malaya and have muddled up the English 
names for these West Indian fruits, for what we call the Custard 
Apple is really the Sweet Sop or Sugar Apple and the true 
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Custard Apple or Bulloch*s Heart is seldom seen in our markets* 
Likewise there may be confusion over the Flame of the Forest. 
If we have aay listeners in India, they will think not of the 
feathery foliaged trees which we know so well, but of the 
Dadap-like trees called Butea frondosa which is not grown in 
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Malaya* In India,- our Flame cf the Forest is called the Gul 
Kohur or Flamboyant. The other day, too, I was reading in an 
