OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from de Clercq (1890): Ternate

Page number: 314

haté bési

•  a tree, the bark is put in warm water and given to women who are giving birth.een boom, de schors wordt in het warme water gedaan, dat men aan barende vrouwen te drinken geeft.

Scientific name: Blackwellia foetida Wall

Note: It is less correctly called Hate bassi by Filet.