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talkerou6 rpots. Then there is G, with a blue ti:\^ 
in ttem, I have no certain knox^ledge luwr coramon or rare the,%are 
^-elatively. In the Kev/ herbarium is a. specimen of one or another 
collected for Griffith near Malacca, and there is no informa- 
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tion with it upon its underground parts. There is a specimen 
from Balik Pulau collected by Curtis, do,, and another by Ridley 
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do., except that R. In a paper in the Journ.Ro^/’.AB,Soc, describ- 
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es the underground parts ascrange, though it is not clearly 
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indicated if he had borrowed the observation or had made it 
himself. Last/ly there is a. temu hitam from Bukit Timah. 
If the name is of any good, t^nu hitara should contrast with 
temu put eh and while temu put eh is zeodatia, be xanthorrhiza. . 
The Malays know these plants we do not, and it would. 
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be a very good thing if you could direct enquiries. 
You will have written to Penang to get back my enquiries 
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on drugs in the "Medical book of Malay medicine". I wo3:k at it 
as I can, I have just run down what the scribe called "anta^ran 
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(sending leaves)" as Kelia azadirachta. 
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