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

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

 glabrous or sparsely puberulous, '05 in. long, tube campanulate, teeth 

 short deltoid ciliate, bracteoles minute glabrous. Corolla white, glabrous, 

 •15 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 

 that 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 diam., 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 Roxb. Hort. Beng. 40. 

 M. Djiringa 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 Grah. in Wall. 

 Cat. 5276. Inga lobata Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5280 A. Inga bigemina Bl. 

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

 Royle, 111. Him. PI. 183. Pithecolobium Koeringa Kuntze MSS. in 

 Herb. Kew. 



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

 Zer5665! 7116! 8651! 10841! Malacca; Griffith 1954! Maing ay 572/2! 

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

 ("wild," Forbes 1519! 3051!); Java, cultivated (Kurz 2110 ! Koorders 

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



Cartis gives the Malay name in Penang as " Jereng ; " Jack gives " Bua Jiring" 

 as the name in Surnati'a ; Roxburgh uses this name and, perhaps, also the name 

 "Koeringa." 



Specimens issned by Javanese botanists as P. bigeminum always belong to this 

 species ; P. bigeminum 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 " Djenlcol." 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, published two names :— Mimosa Koeringa (Hort. 

 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 carefnl to cite as synonymous with his Inga Jiringa. Of Inga 

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

 however, to imply that, like i\ bubalina, its seeds have no arillus, but that the legume 



