Albizzia. | XLVII. § MIMOSEH (OLIVER). 357 
sessile land near the base and between the uppermost pinne ; pinn» 
10-13-jugate ; leaflets in about 20 pairs, linear falcate acute, very 
pale and thinly silky beneath, } in. long. Peduncles slender, fascicled 
in the upper axils, 2 in. long more or less. Flowers pubescent, sessile. 
Bracteoles linear-subulate. Calyx }—fid, teeth lanceolate-deltoid. Pe- 
tals connate half their length. “United base of the capillary filaments 
included.—A. pallida, Harv. in Flor. Cap. ii. 284 (non Fournier). 
South Central. Near Lake Ngami, M‘Cabe! 
4. A. anthelmintica, 4. Brongn. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, vii. 902. 
A shrub or small tree (in Zambesi land occasionally with a trunk 3-4 
ft. in diameter), wholly glabrous or extremities petioles and peduncles 
in the Zambesi plant minutely pubescent. Leaf-rachis }—3 in. long, 
usually with minute glands; pinne 2—3- (1-4) jugate; leaflets 2-3- 
(—5) jugate, the upper larger, obliquely obovate or obovate-elliptical, 
obtuse, mucronate, glabrous, glaucescent, reticulate, paler or glauces- 
cent beneath, the upper varying to 1} in. in length, usually smaller, 
petiolule $ line or less. Peduncles fascicled or solitary in the upper 
axils or from leafless nodes on the older wood, about 4} in. long. 
Flowers “whitish,” subsessile on pedicels 3, in. Calyx infundibuli- 
form, denticulate, at length irregularly split, half as long as petals 
which are connate 3. United base of the filaments included. Legume 
2-6 in. long, few-seeded, narrowed at the base, often sinuous from 
abortion of seeds, }—3 in. broad in our specimens.—Besenna anthelmin- 
tica, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 253; Fournier, Thése Inaug. cum. tab. ; 
Albizzia floribunda (Fenzl) Kotschy, Schweinf. in Reliq. Kotsch. 5, t. 4. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Petit! Schimper! and others. 
Lower Guinea. Bumbo, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! 
Mozamb. Distr. Shire river, Zambesia, Dr. Meller! : 
The bark is used as an anthelmintic in Abyssinia. ‘“ Wood hard, and used in 
canoe-making” in Zambesi land. (Dr. Meller.) 
5. A. glabrescens, Oliv. A large tree; extremities minutely 
rusty-pubescent, early glabrous or nearly so, lenticellate, dark reddish 
brown.  Leaf-rachis 1—3 in., glabrate, eglandular (in our specimens) ; 
pinne 2-1-jugate; leaflets 4—6-jugate, shortly petiolulate, oblique or 
subfalcate, oblong-rhomboidal or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, the upper- 
most pair largest, glabrous or midrib puberulous above, shining, reticu- 
late, with the lower lateral nervure a 4 the length of the leaf- 
let, varying to 2 in. in length, the lower frequently not half as long; 
petiolule } line. | Peduncles 1 in., fascicled in the nodes and race- 
mosely or corymbosely crowded on leafless shoots 2—3 in. in length. 
Inflorescence pubescent more or less. Pedicels ree: the moet or 
flower. Calyx tubular-campanulate, 5-dentate, 1 line long. Petals 
united 3, twice as long as the calyx. United base of the filaments 
included, 
Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar; and Kongone, Zambesi, growing in open spaces be- 
tween the lines of mud creeks, Dr. Kirk! 
