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84  Palémbang, common.  Pinang, the areca nut.  Poké, wild and like kollé.  Raja, or the King, has a ruddy skin and is rather large.  Raja beusi.  Raja-Pandan.  Raja-Pakuan, small tree and fruit. It is acidulous.  Rangrang. </li><li> Ruju, tree low, fruit long and thick. </li><li> Sambatu, hoyas, but the individual pulp-pods are grown together, as if the fingers were glued to one another. </li><li> Sěpět, green stem, tree middling size; very common and acrid. </li><li> Séwu, the thousand, very small and insipid. </li><li> Sukun. </li><li> Susu, or milk, one of the most delioate of Plantains. </li><li> Tanduk or Galék, the Horn, long fruit curved like a horn. Very common but must be toasted or steamed. </li><li> Warangan, or arsenick. </li></ol>

Chaw Asak, the ripe plantain, name of a river fish.

Chaw Kipas, the fan Plantain, called in Malay Pisang ayer, the water plantain. Introduced from Madagascar. Ravenala Madagascarencis, formerly called Urania Speciosa. It is known in English as the „ traveller's friend" — from the quantity of water which can always be got from it.

Chawat, any cloth twisted round the loins, of which a part or slip hanging down in front is taken up, and passing between the legs is tucked in fast behind. The Chawat was probably the oply dress of natives in days of old, before they learnt the use of cotton, and the art of spinning. Sunda chawats, in old times, were no doubt made of a bit of bark as, to this day, is the case with the natives of some parts of Celebes.

Chawél, to bite or snap at- as a tiger bites at its prey.

Chawis, ready, prepared. Ceunang nyawisan, made ready.

Chaya, also heard as Chahaya, bright, brilliant. Radiance, lustre. Ch'haya, C. 203. an image or picture. The wife of the sun. Radiance, beauty, splendour; lustre. (See Chahaya; which means also shade).

Chayur, a forest tree, Pterospermum Lanceofolium. Makes good planks.

Chayut, a temporary sort of basket made of the leaves of any palm tree platted together.

Chě, used only with na after it, and thus as Chena, he said, said he.

Chěb, the idiomatic expression of sticking in, as a stake in the ground, a needle in cloth or the like. Cheb bai di pager, he stuck a fence round it. Cheb bai di kaput, he sewed it up.

Chěblok, the idiomatic expression of slapping a post or large stake into a hole in the