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1-jugate pinnce ; rachises of pinnee Ih-Vlh in. long with glands 

 between the 1-2 pairs of leaflets, the leaflets oftener 1- than 2- jugate, 

 sometimes 1-jugate on one and 2-jugate on the other pinna of the same 

 leaf ; leaflets glabrous on both surfaces, bright-green shining beneath 

 as well as above, rigidly papery, oblong-lanceolate, shortly subacutely 

 pointed, cuneate at base, distal 4-5 in. long, 175-2-25 in. wide, proximal 

 2*5 in. long, 1*25 in. wide, lateral nerves 4-5 pairs ascending, petiolules 

 distinct, glabrous, '2 in. long. Flowers in small 5-8-fld. heads "3 in. 

 across, on puberulous very slender pedicels '4i-'Q in. long, fascicled in 

 the axils of small bracts and subumbellate at the tips of puberulous 

 peduncles '75 in. long, subcorymbosely set on branchlets 2*5 in. long, 

 themselves disposed in terminal and axillary panicles 6-8 in. long, 4-6 

 in. wide. Calyx sessile '05 in. long, pubescent, campanulate, teeth short, 

 deltoid, bracteoles minute. Corolla white, '12 in. long, teeth lanceolate 

 nearly as long as tube, uniformly puberulous externally. Filaments 

 united in a tube longer than that of corolla, free portion white, exserted, 

 '35 in. long. Ovary pubescent, distinctly stipitate. Pod dark-green 

 inside, reddish outside, dehiscent along both sutures, oblong, straight or 

 falcate, apex obtuse, base obliquely rounded, 3-4 in. long, 1 in. wide, 

 '75 in. thick, sutures thin not at all indented, valves thick, fleshy, 

 foetid, densely shortly velvety externally. Seeds 8-10, crowded, ovoid, 

 with sides flattened from mutual compression, "75 in. long, '4 in. wide 

 and as thick, testa thin crustaceous smooth shining dark-purple ; arillus 

 absent. Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 304. Inga huhalina Jack, Mai. 

 Miscel. II, 7. 77; Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. I, 224. 



Penang ; fide Baker. Malacca ; Grifiith ! Maingay 576 ! Good- 

 enough 1552 ! DiSTRiB. Sumatra {Jack ; Forbes 1801 !) 



Jack gives the Malay name of this as ^' Bua Karhau^' in Sumatra; Forbes 

 does not give any native name. In Malacca the name given by Griffith is " Ingria" 

 that Hoted by Goodenough is '* Gerdas Padi" The fleshy pod is eaten, in spite of 

 its offensive odour. 



4. PiTHECOLOBiTJM LOBATUM Benth. in Hook, Lond. Journ. Bot. Ill, 

 208. A tree 60-80 feet high with spreading crown, stem 15-20 in. thick; 

 branchlets glabrous; bark grey. Leaves evenly 2-pinnate; rachis 

 glabrous '6-1 in. long, with a gland near the middle but none at base 

 or between the bases of the 1-jugate pinnae ; rachises of pinnae glabrous 

 4-6 in. long, with gland between the bases of the 2-3-jugate leaflets ; 

 leaflets oblong to oblong-lanceolate, acute, base cuneate, firmly papery, 

 flexible, glabrous and shining on both sides, medium-green, distal pair 

 5-8 in. long, 2-3 in. wide, proximal 3 in. long, 1"5 in. wide ; petiolules 

 glabrous, "25 in. long. Flowers in small 3-5-fld. heads '25 in. across, on 

 glabrous slender pedicels •2--3 in. long, solitary or 2-3 together on 

 nodes with small glabrous bracts along glabrous branchlets 1-4 in. long, 



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