XI, VIII. MXirMiNos-E. 455 



Tlirnn^^lioiit Ow Presidency in dry forests. Konkan : S/oc/c^l, I)iil-rll\\ Matlicran 

 liill, Diihell cj- Gibson; Alexandra Point,, Matiiernn, //. M. Ilirdwood; bunks of tiie 

 Kistna, G-raham. Deccan : Poona, Woodrotn ; Alandi, Voi)ke\ S. M. Countky : hills 

 north of Jielgaiun, liilchlc, 1057! — Ui.snuu. India (VV. Peninsula); Ceylon, E. 

 Tropical Africa. 



Alhlzzht luc'nhi, Beiith. in Hook. Loiul. Journ. Eot. v. 3 (18J4) p. 80, 

 an uiianned deciduous tree 5U-60 I't. bi<^li, a native of the P^astern 

 Himalaya and indo-Cliiiia, is I'requcntly cultivated, but is not indigenous 

 in the Bombay Presidency. The leaves are remarkable as having 

 normally but 1 pair of pinua3. The pod is 6-10 in. long, smooth and 

 glossy, and of a bright orange-brow n color. Fl. B. I. v. 2, p. 2'J9 ; 

 AV^oodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. 430. 



Woodrow in his list gives this as occurring at Matheran. I have ascertained from 

 hiiii, however, that the trees had been planted there and were not indigenous. 



81. PITHECOLOBIUM, Mart. 



Erect trees or shrubs, nnarmed or with spinescent stipules or axillary 

 spines. Leaves 2-i)innate ; stipules various. Flowers usually in 

 globose beads or cylindric spikes, 5- (rarely 6-) merous, usually herma- 

 phrodite. Calyx campanulate or funnel-shaped, shortly toothed. Corolla 

 funnel-shaped, the petals valvate, united below for ^-| of their length. 

 Stamens monadelphous, much ext^erted ; anthers not g'and-crested. 

 Ovary sessile or stalked ; ovules many ; style filiform ; stigma minute, 

 capitate. Pod strap-shaped, circinate or falcate (rarely straight), usually 

 dehiscent throughout the lower sutiu'e and much twisted in a late 

 stage," the sutures not or slightly thickened. Seeds often embedded 

 in a scanty pulp, ovate or orbicular, compressed, the funicle filiform or 

 variously expanded into a fleshy aril. — Distbib. Cosmopolitan in the 

 Tropics ; species about 100, chiefly American. 



1. Pithecolobium bigeminum, Mart, in Flora, v. 20 (1837) ii, 

 Btihh p. 115 in uhs. ; Bentli. in Huolc. Lond. Joiirn. Bot. v. 3 (1844) 

 p. 206. A middle-sized unarmed tree ; young parts glabrous or slightly 

 pubescent. Leaves 2-pinnate ; main rhachis 4-6 in. long, glabrous, 

 with a gland on the petiole and 1 below each pair of pinnae ; pinnte 

 stalked, 1-2 (rarely 3) pairs, the lowest pair the smallest, their rhachises 

 with a gland beneath the insertion of each pair of leaflets except the 

 lowest. Leaflets 1-2 (rnrely 3) pairs, 3-6 by 1-1^ in., the terminal 

 pair the largest, subcoriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate, or obovate-oblong, 

 acuminate or acute, glabrous above, pubescent at first beneath, base 

 acute; petiolules g in. long. Flowers subsessile, in few-flowered heads 

 in small pedunoled clusters, arranged on the long branches of pubescent 

 panicles usually shorter than the leaves. Calyx Y2"ny "^- ^*^"S» densely 

 brown-silky ; teeth short, triangular. Corolla pale-yellow or cream- 

 colored, 2-3 times as long as the calyx, silky outside ; lobes lanceolate, 

 acute. Stamens |-i in. long. Pods flat, once or twice spiral, bluntly 

 pointed, roughish, but glabrous or nearly so, reddish-brown outside, 

 bright red within, not indented between the seeds. Seeds 5-8. 

 Fl. B. 1. V. 2, p. 303 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 89 ; Bedd. For. Man. p. xcvi ; 

 Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 2, p. 132; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 156 ; Woodr. 

 in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1S<)S) p. 430 ; Watt. Diet. Fcon. Prod. 



