The Malay name of the tree, Isonandra Gutta (or I. Taban), that yields gutta-percha. Hence taban-tree.
1861. Bentley, Man. Bot., 588. Isonandra Gutta, the Gutta Percha or Taban-tree … a native of Singapore, Borneo, and other Malay Islands.
1874. Garrod & Baxter, Mat. Med. (1880), 299. Gutta-Percha … the inspissated juice of Isonandra gutta, the Gutta-percha or Taban tree.
