Albizzia.] XLVII. § MIMOSEH (OLIVER). 363 
the petioles and peduncles tawny-puberulous. Leaf-rachis 3-6 (—10) in. 
long, with a conspicuous gland near the base, and usually 1 or more 
above ; pinne 3-4- (—5) jugate ; leaflets 4-8-jugate, oulanay ovate- or 
oblong-rhomboidal obtuse or broadly pointed, base truncate parallel 
with the rachis, midrib diagonal, glabrous, shining and reticulate above ; 
usually 3-1} in. long, the uppermost pair either longer or shorter than 
those next below, varying to 2 in. in length. Peduncles 1-2 in. from 
the upper axils or forming short leafless terminal corymbs, sometimes 
or scarcely overtopped by the leaves; pedicels very short or 0. Calyx 
tubular, 5-dentate, 4-4 as long as the corolla. Petals united #, like 
the calyx silky-puberulous. Staminal tube slender, 4—5 times as long 
as the flower. Legume straight or slightly curved, obtuse, 4-5 in. 
long, 3~% in. broad; valves thin, subcoriaceous. 
Upper Guinea. Gaboon river, Mann! (Extremities tawny-puberulous. + Ex- 
serted staminal-tube exceeding 1 in.) 
Lower Guinea. Golungo Alto, Dr. Welwitsch! (Extremities glabrous. Exserted 
Staminal-tube 1 in. or less.) 
! Nile Land. Fesoghlu, Cienkowski. (Figured as Zygia Brownei, Walp., in 
Schweinf. Relig. Kotschyane, Tab. x.) 
A. Mozambicensis, Bolle in Peters’ Mossamb. Bot. 4. 
Tree; extremities obscurely 4-angular, with the petioles pubescent ; irregularly scat- 
tered with small solitary slightly recurved blackish prickles. Pinnee 6-11-jugate, leaflets 
small linear-oblong oblique, thinly ciliate multijugate. Flowers .. . . Legume 3 in, 
long, 4 in, broad, 2-valved; valves coriaceous, margins thickened. Seeds 10, oblong- 
ovate, 3-4 lines long. 
Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi, Dr. Peters. : 
This plant I do not know, and doubt if it belong to the genus. Perhaps an Acacia. 
Speke and Grant collected in Usagara, on their way from Zanzibar to the head waters 
of the Nile, a leaf of a tree apparently allied to Zygia or Pithecolobium (the Zygia 
No. 4 of their Appendix), the M‘Koondée of the natives. It is a tree of large size. 
Leaves agreeing well with those of Zygia, but the inflotescence is figured by Col. Grant as 
pendulous and capitate, like that of a Parkia. The legumes are very long. “ The natives 
cover their poisoned arrows with strips from the long pod when they do not use leather.’ 
I cannot identify the plant. 
17. PITHECOLOBIUM, Mart.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 
Plant. i. 596. 
Flowers capitate (in African species), usually 5-merous. ek 
tubular or campanulate, denticulate. Petals united beyond the middle. 
Stamens indefinite, exserted; filaments united at the base; anthers 
small, pollen said to be as in Aldizzia, Legume (in Eo Owe species) 
compressed, coriaceous, circinate, constricted between the seeds, “‘ inde- 
hiscent or separating in l-seeded articles.”—Trees or shrubs, unarmed 
or with stipular or axillary spines. Leaves bipinnate, leaflets various. 
Inflorescence capitate (or spicate), axillary (or corymbose, racemose or 
panicled at the extremities). 
A large genus, principally Tropical American and Asiatic. The onl satisfactorily 
determined Tropical African species belongs to Mr. Bentham’s Section V. Cathormion 
(Hook. Journ. Bot. 1844, 197). 
