Gluta wallichii
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Description
Large, evergreen tree up to 45 m high and 70 cm ø.
Bark greyish brown, flaky, or distinctly rugose-fissured.
Leaves coriaceous, obovate-oblong, elliptic-lanceolate, or elliptic, 8½-34½ by 4-14 cm, glabrous, sometimes tomentose and glabrescent beneath;
Petals white, imbricate, ovate-oblong, lanceolate, or elliptic, 4-7 by 1¾-2½ mm, villose on both surfaces.
Stamens 5, 2½-4 mm;
Panicles 16½—33 cm long, pubescent, sometimes glabrescent;
Ovary subglobose, c. 1½ mm ø, pilose;
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present (Brunei present, Kalimantan present, Sabah present, Sarawak present); Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Sumatera (Sumatera present)
Malesia: widely distributed in Sumatra, Malay Peninsula, and Borneo (Brunei, Sabah, Sarawak, Kalimantan).
Uses
ENDERT () finds the heartwood a superior timber and in Malaya judgement is similar, but a great objection against its use is that it retains long its renghas-poison quality (HEYNE, l.c. 973). The fruit is mixed into dart-poison by the Besisi in Malaya (BURKILL, l.c.).
Citation
HEYNE 1927: Nutt. Pl.: 973
ENGL 1883 – In: DC., Mon. Phan. 4: 235
King 1896 – In: J. As. Soc. Beng.: 485
King 1940: Ways. Trees: 120: f. 27
BURK. 1935: Dict.: 1438
Corner 1939 – In: Gard. Bull. S. S.: 261
Corner 1939 – In: Gard. Bull. S. S.: 260
Ridl. 1922 – In: Fl. Mal. Pen.: 530
KOCHUM. 1964 – In: Mal. For. Rec.: 298
Engl. 1883 – In: DC., Mon. Phan. 4: 235
SMYTHIES 1965: Common Sarawak Trees: 9
King 1896 – In: J. As. Soc. Beng.: 484
Merr. 1921: En. Born.: 350
Ridl. 1922: p. 529. – In: Fl. Mal. Pen.: f. 52
Hook.f. 1940: Ways. Trees: 120
KOCHUM. 1964 – In: Mal. For. Rec.: 298