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by the inhabitants Moshu, with singularly twisted, bivalve pod. Burch. 
Cat. Geogr. 2205 - ae 
A. stolonifera (Burch. Trav. 2, 241); stems underground, stolonife- 
rous ; twigs, leaves, and spines pubescent ; leaves bipinnate 3 pinne 
3-7-Jugate ; leaflets oblongo-lanceolate, 7—1 5-jugate ; spines stipular, in 
-pairs, whitish, spreading, with brown, sub-recurved tips; heads axil- 
lary, 2-6 together, globose, pedunculate ; legume straight, yellow, ob- 
liquely striate, hollow. Cat. Geogr. 2138. 
LEGUMINOS& (Harv.) [Albizzia. 
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A. viridiramis (Burch. Tray. 1, 300); a bush 3-4 feet high, with 
flexuous, green branches. Stipular-spines recurved, very short ; gemmez 
woolly-white ; leaves small, conjugato-pinnate; pinne 6-8-jugate ; 
leaflets oval, close-set. Cat. Geogr. 1586. : 
LXXXI. ALBIZZIA, Duraz. 
Flowers mostly bisexual. Calyx campanulate or tubular, 5-toothed. 
Corolla monopetalous, funnel-shaped. Stamens indefinite, often nume- 
rous, united at base into a tube. Legume flat, dry, membranous or 
papery, with thin margins, either indehiscent or dehiscent. Benth. in 
Lond. Journ, 3, p. 84. 
Unarmed trees or shrubs. Leaves bipinnate. Glands as in Acacia. Flowers in 
heads or spikes, mostly handsome, with long, white or rosy, rarely purple, feathery 
bundles of stamens, Name of barbarous origin. 
ANALYSIS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN SPECIES, 
Pinne 2~4-jugate ; leaflets falcate-oblong, obtuse, convex (1) Forbesii, 
Pinnz 12~14-jugate ; leafl. lin.-falc. acute, white beneath (2) pallida, 
1. A. Forbesii (Benth.! Lond. Journ. 3, Pp. 92); twigs and petioles 
thinly velvetty-pubescent; stipules small, deciduous; pinnee 2—4-jugate ; 
leaflets 10-15-jugate, Salcate-oblong, obtuse, or mucronulate, concave be- 
neath, with a submarginal nerve, rufo-sericeous on both sides, at length 
glabrate above ; petioles with a gland above the base and one between 
the terminal pair ; peduncles longish, axillary; heads many-flowered ; 
flowers sessile, rufo-sericeous ; calyx } of corolla; ovary sessile, gla- 
brescent. Benth. 1. c. 
Has. Delagoa Bay, Forbes! (Herb. Hk. 
Bark dark-coloured ; so eh Gallick or foxy. Leaflets 3 lines long, 1} wide, 
the margins slightly revolute, drying dark. 
2. A. pallida (Harv.); twigs and petioles thinly velvetty-pubescent ; 
stipules subulate; pinne 12— 14-Jjugate ; leaflets 20-24-jugate, linear- 
Salcate, acute, with a submarcinal nerve, glabrous above, very pale and 
thinly silky beneath ; petioles with a gland above the base and one be- 
tween the terminal pair; peduncles axillary or racemose ; heads 15-20- 
flowered ; flowers sessile, fulvo-sericeous ; calyx one-third of corolla; 
ovary sessile, glabrous. _ = 
Has. Banks of the Chobe, Lake - : oe Fo are) 
(Herb. Hk.) Presi: Ngami and adjoining forests, J: McCabe 
.A shrub about to feet high. Petioles 4-5 inches long : leaflets 2 lines lon , } line 
wide, ciliolate, glaucescent above, nearly white ae se: 2 aay Tbs 
| ", .. UXEEIL S9GH STs, 
- Calyz tubular, 5-toothed. Corolla funnel-shaped-tubular, shortly 5- 
