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panulate, 5-parted, segments spreading. Stamina many, 

 monadelphous at the base, long and white. Style filiform, 

 as long as the stamina. Ovary pedicellate. Legume dark 

 green, straight, cylindrical, about 4 inches long, thick, obtuse, 

 many-seeded, fetid. Seeds crowded, orbicular, piled one 

 above the other, and thus flattened above and below by their 

 mutual compression. 



Obs. — This species is nearly alHed in habit and inflor- 

 escence to the Inga Jiringa, Mai. Misc. Vol. I. but differs 

 in the shape of the legume, which has a very offensive smell, 

 but is eaten by the natives in the same manner as that of the 

 Petek f Acacia graveolens, W. J.^J Karbau in Malay signi- 

 fies the Buffalo, whence the specific name. 



INGA CLYPEARIA, ( W, J.) 



Inermis, ramulis acutangulis, foliis bipinnatis, foliolis 10- 

 jugis rhomboideis subtus tomentosis, panicuiis terminalibus, 

 leguminibus contortis rubris. 



Clypearia rubra. Rumph: Amh : III. p. 176, t. 112. 



Jiring muniet. Malay. 



A large tree. Branchlets smooth, acutely five-angled, 

 almost winged. Leaves alternate, bipinnate ; pinnae about 

 four pair ; leaflets about ten pair, rhomboidal, inequilateral, 

 rather acute, entire, smooth above, tomentose or silky and 

 glaucous beneath, they are of unequal size, the uppermost 

 often two inches long. Petiole or rachis acutely 4 or 5-angled, 

 thickened at the base, eglandular. Panicles large, terminal ; 

 peduncles fascicled. Flowers white, pedicellate, in small 

 capitula or heads. Calyx small, five-parted. Corolla much 

 longer than the calyx, quinquefid. Stamina numerous, 

 monadelphous at the base. Style one. Legume red, flat 

 two-valved, spirally contorted, containing many subrotund 

 somewhat compressed black seeds. 



Parkia R, Br. 



