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utrinque circiter 12, perspicuis; inflorescentiis racemosis, sub 

 fructu foliis subaequantibus ; leguminis crassis, ovoideis (1- 

 spermis) vel oblongis (2-spermis), glabris, acuminatis, 3 ad 

 6 cm longis, circiter 2.5 cm latis, valvis in vivo subcarnosis, 

 in siccitate crasse coriaceis, dense et perspicue lenticellato- 

 verruculosis. 



A suberect shrub with elongated, arcuate branches up to 4 m 

 in length, apparently ultimately scandent, glabrous except the 

 inflorescences and the leaves. Branches terete, brov;^nish, lenti- 

 cellate, glabrous. Leaves up to 35 cm in length, the petiole and 

 rachis glabrous, reddish-brov^^n or dark-brow^n. Leaflets estipel- 

 late, oblong, chartaceous, 8 to 12 cm long, 3 to 4.5 cm v^ide, apex 

 shortly acuminate, base acute to obtuse, the upper surface gla- 

 brous, shining, olivaceous or brownish-olivaceous, the lower sur- 

 face paler, rather densely pubescent with short, cinereous hairs ; 

 lateral nerves about 12 on each side of the midrib, impressed 

 on the upper surface, prominent beneath, curved, obscurely anas- 

 tomosing; petiolules dark-brov^, rugose, 5 mm long or less; 

 stipels none. Racemes in fruit about as long as the leaves, spar- 

 ingly pubescent, lenticellate. Pods somewhat fleshy when fresh, 

 ovoid to oblong in outline (ovoid when 1-seeded, oblong when 

 2-seeded), 3 to 6 cm long, about 2.5 cm wide, acuminate, base 

 rounded, when fresh nearly as thick as wide, when dry distinctly 

 compressed, the valves when dry thickly coriaceous and very 

 prominently and densely verrucose-lenticellate, glabrous, tardily 

 dehiscent. Seeds (somewhat immature) about 1.5 cm in dia- 

 meter. 



Kwangtung Province, Loh Fau Mountain (Lofaushan), in thickets near 

 So Liu Koon, altitude about 200 meters, Merrill 10861 (type), Levine 1S71, 

 August 13, 1917, locally known as ue tang tsai. 



I was at first disposed to refer these specimens to Millettia oospcrma 

 Dunn, to which the species is perhaps most closely allied, but they differ 

 radically from Dunn's species in their more numerous leaflets (never 2- 

 jugate) , and shorter, glabrous pods. The species is dedicated to Mr. S. T. 

 Dunn, late director of the Hongkong Botanic Garden and author of a 

 recent revision of the genus Millettia. 



ALBIZZIA Durazzini 

 ALBIZZIA CORNICULATA (Lour.) comb. nov. 



Mimosa cornicidata Lour. Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 651. 

 Albizzia milletii Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. 3 (1846) 89. 

 Caesalpinia lebbekkoides DC. Prodr. 2 (1825) 483. 

 Kwangtung Province, Loh Fau Mountain at Wa Shau T'oi, Merrill 11004; 

 vicinity of Canton, Levine 774, 1158, 1578. 



Loureiro's type was from the vicinity of Canton, and his description 

 applies unmistakably to the form commonly known as Albizzia milletii 



