abrus

Her majesty -- fat, fair, and forty-five -- was sitting, plainly garbed in mbugu, upon a carpet spread upon the ground within a curtain of mbugu, her elbow resting on a pillow of the same bark material; the only ornaments on her person being an abrus necklace, and a piece of mbugu tied round her head, whilst a folding looking-glass, much the worse for wear, stood open by her side.

The Discovery of the Source of the Nile John Hanning Speke 1845

In the courtyard fronting them, were hundreds of men and women dressed in smart mbugus -- the males wearing for turbans, strings of abrus-seeds wound round their heads, with polished boars 'tusks stuck in in a jaunty manner.

The Discovery of the Source of the Nile John Hanning Speke 1845

(abrus) is likewise used in the country as a cement.

The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants William Marsden 1795

Various seeds are used as gold weights, but more especially these two: the one called rakat or saga-timbangan (Glycine abrus L. or Abrus maculatus of the Batavian

The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants William Marsden 1795