266 G . King — MatenaUfor a Wlm'a of tJie Malayan Penhmila. [No. 1, 
the larger panicnlately branched; fftscicled in leaf-fixila and on nodes 
below the leai^ea near and at tlie ends of brftnciios. Cahjx sessile, 
gJabrouB or sparsely pubeiuloaa, '05 in. long, tube campanukte, teeth 
Bhovi deltoid ciliate, bracfeolea minute glabrous. Oorolla white, glabrous, 
•15 ill. long, tnbe infnndibnliform one and a half times the lengtii of the 
lanceolate teeth. Fifaments united at base in a tnbe rather shorter ihau 
that t»f corolla, free portion white, exserted, '25 in. losig- Ovary glabrous, 
fitipitjite. Po(^ 9-10 in. long, lioi'se-shoe shaped or loosely spirally twisted, 
valves firmly coriaccons, 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-seedefl. soborbicular rnde- 
\y umhouate lobes 13 in. in diara., 1 in. thick, Seeds 3-6, (ngually some 
of the lobes are abortive, occasionally two maj' be confluent), orbicular, 
"75 i(j. in diam., '35 in thiek, testa dark-brown, thin, rather dull, erustace- 
ous ; arJlluB nbsent. Hassk. Retxia 1. 222"; Miq. Plor. Ind. Bat, I, 33 j 
Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind, 11, 305. Mimosa Koeringa Roxb. Hort. Beng. 40, 
3/. LJiringa Roxb. Hort. Beng, 93. M. Kacrimja Roxb. Flor. Ind. II, 
543 If. Jiringa Jack, MaL MiscelL I, 1. 14 ; Hook. Bot. Misc. I, 28*2. 
liitja JiHnga Jack, M:iL Miscell. II, 7. 78. Inga attenuata Grab, in Wall. 
Cat. 5276. Inga lohata Gi-ah. in Wall. Cat. 5280A. Inga hi'gemina Bl 
Cat. Buitenz. 88; Hassk, Cat. Bog. 291, not of Willd. Acaci<i Koennga 
Royle, II L Hitn. PI. -I S3. PUhecolobiimi Koennga Kaatze MSS. in 
Herb. Kew, 
Pekang; CttrhV105l 7111 720! 2916! Perak ; TTrai/ 499 ! Kunst- 
ler 56651 7116 ! 8651 1 10841 ! Malacca ; Gdj^itk 1954! Aiaijigmj 572/2 ! 
SiNGAPOBB ; Kumtler 1163 ! IlitlhU 47 ! Distriii. Teiinsserim ; Sumatra, 
(" wild," Forbes 1519 ! 3051 !) ; Java, cultivaled {Kurz 2110 ! Eoorders 
4199! 11514!); Philippines, (/tie Baker). 
Cortis givea the Malay nanie in Penang as ^^Jereng ;*' Jack gives "Bua Ju vitf" 
' as Iho nama in Sattiatra ^ Hoxburgh uses this n&ixie and, pi^rbApa, ulso tho mitne 
Koerhiya.'* 
Specimens iesned by Javanese bofcatiiete as P. frtj^efninwin altwaya belong to this 
specieR i P- biQeminum does not ocoiir any vrhere in tliQ Mitlayjan coantries, Uasa* 
karl afcfttOB tbnt the name " Tjering'* ia, in Java, liroited to the eastern parts of the 
island where alone the tree occnna nnenltivated. The oultiwated tree in WeabJara 
ia termed " DJenkol.** Tbia lost ia the ouly name citeHrl by Koordera and Valoton 
{Bijdr. I, 208) who say that, thoagh oooorriDg' aa an escape, the tree us nowhere 
wilJ in Java. 
Koxburgh, it ie to be noted, pnblisliod two names :— Jl^imosa itocrijjflfa (Hort. 
Beng. 40) — this he af terwarda described as having soeda covered with edible fleshy 
palp; and Af. Djirin^a (Hort. Beng. 03) — tbia bo never did describe. It ia to the 
former alone that Royte adverts under the name Acacia Koeriu^ja, and it is Uie Itittoir 
alone that Jack is carefal to cite as syuonymoas with bis Inga Jiringa. Of ffft^.i 
Jiringa Jack does not say tbiit the seeds are eavoloped iu pulp y lie is carofiil, 
however, to imply tbatj like I. bu&aftnii^ its seeds hare aritlus, but tiliat the legume 
