Elaeocarpus griffithii (Wight) A.Gray, Bot. U. St. Expl. Exped. i
Named after W. Griffith [1810-1845], a British physician who collected plants.

Description
Understorey tree up to 16 m tall and 35 cm dbh. Stipules dropped early. Leaves alternate, simple, glabrous, with long petioles and domatia in secondary vein axils. Flowers ca. 14 mm in diameter, green-white, with only slightly fimbriate petal margins, placed in racemes. Fruits ca. 11 mm long, green-blue, fleshy drupe.

Ecology
Usually on open, alluvial, places in undisturbed to secondary mixed dipterocarp, keranga, peat swamp and freshwater swamp forests up to 1000 m altitude. Mostly in swamps and along rivers on ultrabasic or poor sandy soils, but also on limestone.

Uses
The fruits are edible. Locally the bark is used to produce anti-malaria medicin.

Distribution
India, Andaman Islands, Birma, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, Borneo (Sarawak, Brunei, Sabah, West-, South- and East-Kalimantan).

Local names in Borneo
Datar, Emperdu, Insibar, Perawa, Perdu.