Allfi2zia.] XL. leguminos.^. 423 



Archipelago. The Austrcalian specimens are not complete, but, as far as they go, they do 

 not appear to differ at all from the Indian ones, 



5. A. canescens, Beuik. A. beautiful spreading tree, the young shoots 

 silky-pubescent, the adult foliage more or less hoary with a very muiute ap- 

 piessed pubescence. Pinnae usually 2 pairs, rarely with a fifth odd pmna or 

 a third pair, the common petiole 2 to 4 in. long, each rhachis 3 to 6 m. ; 

 leaflets 5 to 8 pairs on the terminal pinnae, very obliquely obovate and un- 

 equally narrowed at the base, mostly f to H in- lo"g. fewer and smaller on 

 the lower pinmi;, penniveiued but the veins much less promment than m J. 

 Ubeck. Flower-heads small, numerous, on short peduncles in dense ter- 

 minal panicles much shorter than the last leaves. Flowers sessile mostly 5- 

 merous. Calyx about 1 line, corolla about 24 lines long, both silky-pubes- 

 cent. Stamens about \ in. long, the united part shorter thari the corolla. 

 Pod stipitate, often 8 to 10 in. long and \\ to l\ in. broad in our speci- 

 mens, very thin and flat. Seeds flat, orbicular, along the centre oi the pod, 

 Dot quite ripe in the specimens seen. 



Queensland. Burdekin river, F. Mueller; Fitzroy and Bowen "^'^^s, ^^t^^m^ ; 

 Roekhampton, Thozet, Dallachy. Allied on the one hand to Apocera, on the otti" to ^^ 

 l^hhed; differing from the former in the broader flowers, much longer ^t^f^ns the panic e 

 more dense, and a much broader pod ; from A. Lehheck in the rnnch smaller close!) sessile 

 flowers and broader pod, and from both in the general aspect of the toiiage. 



92, PITHECOLOBIUM, Mart. 



(Cathormion, Eassk) 



^ Calyx campanulate or' tubular. Corolla 5-lobed, ^yith a ^jj^^^f ^^Jf ' 

 Stamens indefinite, usually numerous and long, united a the base n a tube 

 enclosing the ovary. Tod flattened, usually rather thick and "'"'^J ^;"^^ 

 annular or spirally twisted, either openin- entirely or on theoutei ea e m ^ 

 ^Ives. or quite indehiscent, very s.uooth and often coloured ''i^;^^ ^"^ " f^^ 



tW" pulp. Seeds ovate or orbicular ; f-^i^'le Alifo" V^^ T^ i^n t S 

 J thout prickles. Leaves twice pinnate, usually with a g and on ^e petK^lc 

 ^low the piuna^, and others between or below some or all ^^ ^^e pmn^ ana 

 enflets ; leaflets few and rather large in all the Austrahan species 1 lov^ = 

 f globular or oblong heads or umbels, or rarely m cyhndncal spikes, usually 

 hermaphrodite and white, the stamens rarely red. Old TN'orld Of 



A c„a3ijg,^,^j^ ^j. .^^^ distributed over the N*^\P ^ fj \„'o others endemic, 



"^^ three Australian ipeeies, one is also in the Indian Arc^ip lago. the t«^^^^^^^^^ ^^^ 



"« a3 yet doubtful is to the genus, the pod being ^"^"°;:^- J^ f^Jhe «ice-pinnate, 

 ^ers and fruit of some sections of Inga, only differs f^" f/^^^^^^e sand only differ 

 °t sunplv pinuate leaves. Calliandra aud Albizzm have the^«"i« «°^^ / 



'V^,^ P°d- Macia is at once and constantly distinguished bj the stamens 

 •Jaoe round the ovarj-. 



*lwers pedicellate in the head (umbellate). „ , , 1 jp. pyuinosum. 



I-^'atlets obloufT or rhomboidal, acuminate, ^o^ *"^'*''^' ^;^ , 'V ' 

 ^«aflets obliquely obovate, obtuse. Tod indehiscent, very naiu, ^ ^ ^oniliforme. 



*> ^^Pai'ating iuto distinct articles '■ \ ' ' ' ' & P. grandiflorum. 



'^^^m sessile, the corolla \ in. long. Leaflets acuminate . . . • » ^ ^ , ^ 



1 T» . . T J T.,,,^ \\\ 211. A beautiful tree, 



,, i- P. pruinosum, Benth. in Lond. Jonrn. w. /ii. ,,ui,escence 



^'^^ you„g%r,,,ehes, foliage, and iuflorescence rusty with a shoit pubescence 



