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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. Тһе 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 glandular spot. The ripe pods are 8 inches by 14, 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. А. 6.1 | 
99. ALBIZZIA RHOMBIFOLIA P, Benth. in Hook. Journ. Bot. iii. (1844) 87; Oliver, іп 
F1. Trop. Afr. ñ. 358. 
Hab. Madi, Feb. 1863. А single leaf only (No. 760), Col. Grant! The 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. Itis a small bushy tree at 3? N. lat. The natives at 5? S. lat. 
do not make any use of it.—J. A. G.] 
100. ArLBIZZIA (ZYGIA) BRACHYCALYX, Oliver, in Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 361. 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-р1о bre- 
viore ; tubo stamineo longe exserto, gracili; ovario lineari, glabro, subsessili, 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 вере 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, 2-2} lin. latis. Pedunculi axillares, sæpius 
fasciculati, erecti, puberuli, 2-13 poll. longi; floribus glabris, apice umbellato-racemosis. Pedicelli 15 poll. 
longi. Calyz breviter campanulatus, 5-dentatus, corolla 5—6-plo brevior. Corolla 1— poll. longa, ore 
infundibuliformi, 5-fida, lobis ovato-lanceolatis, obtusiusculis. Tubus stamineus longe exsertus, gracilis, 
glaber, 3-1 poll. longus, æstivatione plicatus ; antherz transverse oblongo-rotundate, minute, dorsifixæ. 
Ovarium lineare, compressiusculum, glabrum, subsessile, 7-10-ovulatum. © Legumen non vidi. 
Hab. Usui, Nov. 1861 (Zygia по. 205 in App. Speke's Journ. 634), Col. Grant ! 
[A tree from 20 to 30 feet high, with ven foliage. Now, іп November, honey-sucking birds hover 
over its flowers.—J. А. G.] 
Plate XXXVII. fig. 1. Leaflet; fig. 2. Flower; fig. 3. Calyx and staminal tube cut 
through longitudinally; fig. 4. Stamens. 
101. ALBIZZIA (ZYGIA) 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? S. 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 
riatives 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 Ње largest-growing tree in Heeao.—J. А. G.] 
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