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Obs. — This species which agrees with that described by 

 Rumphius, is found in forests in the neighbourhood of Ben- 

 coolen, but I am not aware that it is there put to any parti- 

 cular use. These two species together with the /. Jiringa 

 might perhaps with equal propriety be referred to Acacia, as 

 the seeds are not arilled, though the legume (as in /. bubalina) 

 is fleshy and esculent ; the stamina are those of Inga, and 

 the paniculate inflorescence is more frequent in that genus 

 than in Acacia. The distinction between these two sections 

 of the Linnean genus Mimosa is an artificial one, and the 

 characters of the present species are in some degree inter- 

 mediate between the two. 



XIX. CHRYSOBALANE^. 



PETROCARYA EXCELS A. (W. J.) 



Heptandria Monogynia. N. O. Rosacece. Juss : 



Foliis oblongis acuminatis glabris, calycibus ore obliquis, 

 staminibus undecim fertihbus. 

 Kayu Balam Pangkat. Malay. 



A large timber tree. Leaves alternate, short petioled- 

 oblong, acuminate, entire, smooth 4 — 5 inches long. Stipules 

 longer than the petioles, deciduous. Racemes axillary and 

 terminal, forming a panicle towards the top, strict, erect, little 

 branched ; flowers very short pedicelled and appressed to the 

 principal peduncle ; the whole ferruginous and tomentose. 

 Bracts broad, deciduous. Calyx infundibular, ferruginous 

 and tomentose, oblique at the mouth, furnished with a ring 

 of stiff hairs which point downwards, lowest on the side to 

 which the fertile stamina and ovary are attached, limb 

 5-parted subreflex. Corolla five-pelalled, inserted on the 

 mouth of the calyx and scarcely longer than its limb, petals 

 subrotund. Stamitia eleven fertile, twice as long as the 



