-icacia.] XL. leguminos.k. 421 



A 



A 



tree, quite glabrous, but the folitige of a very pale or glaucous hue. Phinae 



3 to 10 pairs, the common petiole usually 1 to 2 in. but in the larji^er leaves 



4 to 6 in. long ; leaflets 10 to 20 pairs, oblong, coriaceous, rigid, mostly 3 to 

 Klines long. Stipules spiuesoent, with thickened bases or sometimes none. 

 Peduncles solitary, 1 to ]|- in. long, with an annular 4-lobed deciduous bract 

 about the middle as in A. BidwilU^ bearing a globular head of aljout 20 

 flowers, smaller than in that species, and mostly, if not all, 5-merous. Calyx 

 verj^ short, sinuate-toothed. Corolla scarcely' \\ lines long, shortly lobed: 

 Pod unknown. 



N, Australia. M'Adam range, Fitzmaiirice river, F, Mueller. 



91. ALBIZZIA, "Durazz. 



Corolla 5- or 



usually numerous 



Calyx campanulate or tubular, 5- or rarely 4-toothed. 

 ^I'ely -i-lobcd, with a cylindrical tube. Stamens indefinite, i 

 and long, united at the base in a tube enclosing the ovary. Pod linear 

 or oblong, straight or nearly so, flat, thin, rarely coriaceous, indehiscent 

 or opening wuthout elasticity in 2 valves. Seeds usually orbicular, along 

 the centre of the pod; funcle filiform.— Trees or shrubs, without prickles. 

 J^^aves twice pinnate, with a gland on the petiole below the pinn^ and others 

 [etween or below some or all of the pinnae and leaflets. Flowers in globular 

 heads or rarely cylindrical spikes, usually hermaphrodite. Stamens white or 



piiik, rarelv vellnw mnnli Innnpv fbnn 111 Jcacla, 



l|ie genus is limited to the Old World, and is chiefly tropical. Of t 



^ecies, one is widely dispersed over tropical Asia, the others are endemic. ^ . . . - - 



^^^^ to reunUe this and Fithecolobium with Acacia, but that can scarcely be done without 

 r^ urmiiff to the Linnnnn crPTin« Mimn.,^ for Pitkecoiobium as to flower and fruit, aud 



Of the four Australian 



F. Mueller pro- 



^h>ch only differ in the fiuit. 



2«-e'-s in cylindrical spikes on axillary peduncles 1- ■'• ^op^ntha. 



<^^ei8 a to 10 pau-s, 2 to 3 lines luniT « i ^a._.^.--„ 



Dul.^'^*^?P^■■^■^'itolin.lon^^ 



3. A. Tkozeiiana. 



Plow; :• ^ '° * P'*'!-^' i to 1 in. long 



"ers in small heads in largo (crrainal panicles. , . , , a. A r,rnr^ra 



Panicle loose. Stameus about i in. long. Pod under 1 in. broaJ . i.A.procera. 

 ^'ov^er heads very numerous and crowded. Stamens about ^n. long. ^^^^^, 



*^oa 1 3 to above 2 in. broad l, a 



^^Lebleck, Benth.. allied to A. cancscens, but more sl^^^^^'.^^T^'^jS^^^^^^^^^ 

 2 ^^^}l sessile, and the pod not so broad, etc., a tree wulely dispersed over tropical Asia 



^ , ^, 1*11^ lilt pi/U UUL ^\3 UlV7«^tj ^vv-j - ' r T> ' k 



■lea, has been introduced into the neighbourhood of Brisbane. 



1- A.lophantha, B.ntl. in Ilook. Land. Journ.m. 86 A ta shrub 



J^^'HHll tree; branches, petioles, and pedimcks usually v'^l^'^^.v-pub^^ ,^^^- 

 >* 8 to 10 pairs -leaflets 20 to 30 or more pairs, hnear, 3 to 4 hues 

 :?h 'K^'^-^' "-r the uppr margin, glabrous above, f Kv-p.f;-- -der 

 l'^^' ^Flowers in bose^iylindrical axillary pedunculate spikes of fiom , 

 swf ""V ^ i"-' ^^^^' flower 2 to 3 lines long, iisually S-merous Calyx 

 ^•^•^rtly lohf^d r,.+ r.„ir „. !.„„ n= t^P rnrnlla. Stamens fully \ in. long. 



'y lobed, not half as long as the corolla. 



+ 



