Gluta velutina
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Description
Large shrub or small tree up to 10 m high, sometimes with branched stilt-roots up to 1 m high.
Bark pinkish brown, rather smooth.
Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, narrowly elliptic, or oblanceolate, 12-32 by 5-8 cm, glabrous;
Petals white or pink at edges, Imbricate or contorted, oblanceolate or elliptic-oblong, 7-9 by 2-3 mm, glabrous;
Stamens 5, 4-5 mm;
Panicles 5—12 cm long, puberulous;
Ovary subglobose, 1-1½ mm ø, glabrous;
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Sumatera (Sumatera present); Thailand (Thailand present); Vietnam (Vietnam present), Burma present, W. Java present
Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, and Malesia: Sumatra, Malay Peninsula, Borneo, and W. Java (once).
Uses
The timber is similar to that of G. renghas but of smaller dimension; see further BURKILL, l.c.
Notes
The only collection in W. Java is FORBES 1169 which was correctly identified by E. G. BAKER, l.c. He collected it at Tjilaki, near Pengalengan (Priangan), at c. 350 m, recording it to be a great tree of which the bark exuded excoriating sap; vern. name rěngas djahat or dahu. It is remarkable that it has never been collected again.
Citation
GRIFF. 1854 – In: Icon.: f. 1
LECOMTE 1908 – In: Fl. Gen. I.-C.: 21
Ridl. 1908 – In: J. Str. Br. R. As. Soc.: 16
King 1896 – In: J. As. Soc. Beng.: 482
BAKER 1924 – In: J. Bot.: Suppl. 30
CRAIB 1926 – In: Fl. Siam. En.: 346
TARD. 1962 – In: Fl. C. L. & V.: 119
Engl. 1883 – In: DC., Mon. Phan. 4: 227
Ridl. 1911 – In: J. Str. Br. R. As. Soc.: 89
BURK. 1931 – In: Gard. Bull. S. S.: 225
Merr. 1921: En. Born.: 349
Bl. 1935: Dict.: 1080
Corner 1940: Ways. Trees: 118