MateriaU for a Flora of the Malayan Teninsula, 



the larger panicnlately branched ; fascicled in leaf -axils and on nodes 

 below the leaves near and at the ends of branches. Calyx sessile, 

 glabrous or sparsely piibenilous, "05 in. long, tube campanulate, teeth 

 short deltoid ciliate, bracteoles minute glabrous. CoroZ?a white, glabrous, 

 ■16 in. long, tube infundibuliform one and a half times the length of the 

 lanceolate teeth. Filaments united at base in a tube rather shorter than 

 tliat of corolla, free portion white, exserted, '25 in. long. Ovary glabrous, 

 stipitate. Pod 9-10 in. long, horse-shoe shaped or loosely spirally twisted, 

 valves firmly coriaceous, glabrous, deeply lobed along the lower suture 

 half-way or more towards the entire upper, indehiscent in the sinuses, 

 but dehiscing along the convexities of the one-seeded suborbicular rude- 

 ly umbonate lobes 2 in. in diara., 1 in. thick. Seeds 3-6, (usually some 

 of the lobes are abortive, occasionally two may be confluent), orbicular, 

 •75 in, in diam., '35 in, thick, testa dark-brown, thin, rather dull, crustace- 

 ous ; arillus absent. Hassk. Retzia I. 222 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 33 ; 

 Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 305. Mimosa Koeringa Eoxb. Hort. Beng. 40. 

 M. Bjiringa Roxb. Hort. Beng. 93. M. Kaeringa Roxb. Flor. Ind. II, 

 543. M. Jiringa Jack, Mai. Miscell. I, 1. 14 ; Hook. Bot. Misc. I, 282. 

 Inga Jiringa Jack, Mai. Miscell. II, 7. 78. Inga attenuata Grab, in Wall. 

 Cat. 6276. Inga lohata Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5280A. Inga higemina Bl. 

 Cat. Buitenz. 88; Hassk. Cat. Bog. 291, not of Willd. Acacia Koeringa 

 Royle, 111. Him. PI. 183. Pithecolohium Koeringa Kantze MSS. in 

 Herb. Kew. 



Penang ; Curtis 105 ! 711 ! 720 ! 2916 ! Perak ; Wray 499 ! Kunsi- 

 ler 5665 ! 7116 ! 8651 ! 10841 ! Malacca ; Griffith 1954 ! Maingay 572/2 ! 

 Singapore ; Kunstler 1163 ! Hullett 47 ! Distrib. Tenasserim ; Sumatra, 

 ("wild," ^or6es 1519 ! 3051 !) ; Java, cultivsiied ( Kurz 2110 \ Koorders 

 4199! 11514!); Philippines, {fide Baker). 



Curtis gives the Malay name in Penang as ^' Jereng ; " Jack gives " Bua Jiring" 

 as the name in Sumatra ; Roxburgh uses this name and, perhaps, also the name 

 ''Koeringa." 



Specimens issued by Javanese botanists as P. higeminum always belong to this 

 species ; P. higeminum does not occur anywhere in the Malayan countries. Hass- 

 karl states that the name " Tjering " is, in Java, limited to the eastern parts of the 

 island where alone the tree occurs uncultivated. The cultivated tree in West Java 

 is termed " DJenJcol." This last is the only name cited by Koorders and Valeton 

 .{Bijdr. I, 268) who say that, though occurring as an escape, the tree is nowhere 

 wild in Java. 



Roxburgh, it is to be noted, pnhliahed tvfo n^raes: — Mimosa Koeringa CSort. 

 Beng. 40) — this he afterwards described as having seeds covered with edible fleshy 

 pulp; and M. Djiringa (Hort. Beng. 93) — this he never did describe. It is to the 

 former alone that Royle adverts under the name Acacia Koeringa, and it is the latter 

 alone that Jack is careful to cite as synonymous with his Inga Jiringa. Of Inga 

 Jiringa Jack does not say that the seeds are enveloped in pulp ; he is careful, 

 however, to imply that, like I. hubalina, its seeds have no arillus, hut that the legume 

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