5^6 NEW SPECIES OF PLANTS FROM NEW SOUTH WALES, 



Panicles in the upper axils or loosely racemose, exceeding the 

 leaves; peduncles flat or angular. Flowers up to about 15 in 

 globular umbels, sessile. Calyx glabrous, 2-3 lines long, shortly 

 toothed, ciliate, campanulate or cylindrical. Corolla exceedingly 

 short in the bud, glabrous, 2-3 lines long, equally 5-lobed. 

 Stamens green, united below the lobes, 9 lines long. Pistil 

 glabrous. Style elongated, 1 inch long. Ovary surrounded at 

 the base by a cup-shaped gland. 



Pod thick, fleshy, terete, 2 to 4 inches long, 3 to 4 lines broad, 

 twisting when perfectly ripe and eventually becoming very hard, 

 valves dark red outside, orange-coloured inside. 



Seed black, imbedded in the thick fleshy interior of the pod, 

 about 2 or 3 lines long. 



Ilab. — Marshall Falls, Alston ville, and also Tintenbar, Rich- 

 mond River; also Mullumbimby, Brunswick River, N.S.W. (W. 

 Baeuerlen). 



This species has closest aflfinity with Albizzia ( Pithecolobium) 

 Hendersoni and A. rannijiora — a specific name, by the way, which 

 would apply equally well to all our Pithecolobiums and Albizzias. 



It is distinguished from the former species by its fewer leaflets, 

 which are not at all oblique and are of a much thinner texture 

 and of a lighter colour; the stamens also are shorter. 



From A. ramijiora, with which it has closest affinity, it is not 

 80 easily distinguished, as the description of that species is from 

 imperfect material. It, however, differs from it principally in the 

 size of leaflets and flowers and the petioles not being decurrent. 



It can be recognised from A . pruinosa by its sessile flowers and 

 fewer and larger leaflets. 



The most remarkable feature about this species is the full 

 development of the calyx before the appearance of the corolla, 

 which at its maturity about equals the calyx in length. This 

 fact does not appear to have been recorded in any of the published 

 descriptions or delineations of Australian species. 



The following analysis will show its relative position : — 



A. Hendersoni. Leaflets very oblique, flowers on very short 

 stalklets, corolla twice as large as the calyx. 



