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98. ALBIZZIA, sp. allied to 4. Lebbek, but the specimen fragmentary and the deter- 
mination uncertain. 
[Native name “ m’sangal’a.” The specimen observed at Madi, in February, by the bed of a stream, 
was a young healthy tree in pod, and quite different from Albizzia Lebbek. Its bark was brown, and lined 
with black across it. This appearance, and the bending of its long smooth boughs, reminded me of our 
mountain-ash. No thorns. Leaves sensitive, deeply green, surfaces smooth, say nine pairs close 
together ; no impressions upon them; at the points, on the main rib, below and between the petiole-junc- 
tions, there is a spot of a gland. The ripe pods are 8 by 11 inches, a yellow-brown colour, smooth as 
paper, thin, with pointed ends. Seeds flat, brown, considerable distances apart; an inner ring shows on 
them. The seed-stalk is curved. The inside of a dry seed is pea-coloured. Its wood is used in build- 
ing.—J. A. б.| 
99. ALBIZZIA RHOMBIFOLIA ?, Benth. in Hook. Journ. Bot. iii. (1844) 87; Oliver, in 
Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 358. | | 
Hab. Май, Feb. 1863. А single leaf only (Хо. 760), Col. Grant! Тһе original 
specimens of this plant were from Senegambia. 
[Native name * m”keendwanzægamba.” Both the upper and the lower surfaces of the leaves are soft 
and downy as velvet; edges also downy. It is а small bushy tree at 3° N. lat. The natives at 5° 5. lat. 
do not make any use of it.—J. A. G.] 
100. ALBIZZIA (ZYGIA) BRACHYCALYX, Oliver, in Fl. Trop. Afr. 11. 861. Arborea; foliis 
bipinnatis, pinnis 4-7-jugis, foliolis 7-10-jugis late obovato- v. oblongo-ellipticis, petiolo 
glandulis sessilibus interjugalibus 2-3 instructo; pedunculis gracilibus fasciculatis axil- 
laribus; floribus glabris, racemoso-umbellatis; calyce brevissimo corolla 5-6-plo bre- 
viore ; tubo stamineo longe exserto, gracili; ovario lineari, glabro, subsessile, 7—10-ovulato. 
Arbor 20-30-pedalis. Rami teretes, longitudinaliter striati, minute lenticellati, glabrati, innovationes 
puberulæ. Folia bipinnata, petiolo communi pubescente 11—21 poll. longo, inter paria sepe glandulam 
minutam sessilem gerente, pinnis 4—7-jugis; foliolis 7-10-jugis, late obovato- v. oblongo-ellipticis, ob- 
tusis v. oblique et latiuscule acutatis, subglabris, 4-5 lin. longis, 2-23 lin. latis. Pedunculi axillares sæpius 
fasciculati, erecti, puberuli, 3-11 poll. longi; floribus glabris, apice umbellato-racemosis. Pedicelli үх poll. 
longi. Calyz breviter campanulatus, 5-dentatus, corolla 5-6-plo brevior. Corolla +— poll. longa, ore 
infundibuliformi, 5-fida, lobis ovato-lanceolatis, obtusiusculis. Tubus stamineus longe exsertus, gracilis, 
glaber, 2-1 poll. longus, æstivatione plicatus ; antheræ transverse oblongo-rotundatæ, minute, dorsifixæ. 
Ovarium lineare, compressiusculum, glabrum, subsessile, 7-10-ovulatum. Legumen non vidi. 
Hab. Usui, Nov. 1861 (Zygia no. 205 in App. Speke's Journ. 634), Col. Grant ! 
[A tree from 20 to 30 feet high, with graceful foliage. Now, in November, honey-sucking birds hover 
over its flowers.—J. A. G.] 
Plate XXXVII. fig. 1. Leaflet; fig. 2. Flower; fig. З. Calyx and staminal tube cut 
through longitudinally ; fig. 4. Stamens. 
101. ALBIZZIA (ZvGrA) sp.? Leaf only. Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 363. 
[An immense tree, measuring 27 feet at its greatest girth, where the form of a horizontal section is 
that of a starfish; but higher up this angular form resolves into a round trunk. At 15 feet from the 
ground it begins to branch into massive boughs. In flower, leaf, and pod in November, at 7? 5. lat. 
The flower hangs like a round pink tassel; and along with it there may be two pod-like pendants, which 
resemble leather straps or ribbons in being uniformly broad and very long. "These pods are used by the 
natives for covering their poisoned arrows; they are lashed or bandaged round the poison. Leaves com- 
pound. Said to be a useless wood by one of our men, who recognized it as a Madagascar tree, and called 
it “ m’koondee;” but boats and drums are made of this the largest-growing tree in Huao.—J. А. G.] 
