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This darkening effect of Neradol D is most conspicuous in the case of mangrove, maletto, and chestnut, but is absent in the case of algarobilla, dividivi, gambir, sumac, and valonea.

From Synthetic Tannins by Grasser, Georg

The two crops are cultivated together, and both are grown on the edge of the jungle, for the sake of the wood, which is burned in the preparation of the gambir.

From A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months by Brassey, Annie

The greatest height attained by the gambir plant is eight feet. 

From A Woman's Journey Round the World by Pfeiffer, Ida

After having proceeded eight English miles in four hours, we left the boats, and following a narrow footpath, soon reached a number of plots of ground, cleared from trees, and planted with pepper and gambir.

From A Woman's Journey Round the World by Pfeiffer, Ida

Pepper plantations are always to be found near a plantation of the gambir plant, as the former are always manured with the boiled leaves of the latter.

From A Woman's Journey Round the World by Pfeiffer, Ida