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small straight narrow Knear-ligulate close-set, 60-100 pairs, with obli- 

 quely truncate bases and acute apices, strongly 1-nerved, pubescent 

 along the margins, '2 in. long, '05 in. across, petiolar part of main rachis 

 1-1*5 in. long, with 2 collateral glands at the top of ifs swollen base, and 

 with 3-9 solitary glands between the bases of as many pairs of pinnae to- 

 ward the apex of the rachis. Flowers in dense subspherical heads 1'5 in. in 

 diam., peduncle 4-9 in. long. Calyx tubular, shortly 5-cleft, S in. long, 

 teeth pilose, elsewhere glabrous. Corolla tubular, segments subvalvate. 

 Stamens 10, exserted, the filaments connate below and adnate at base to 

 corolla tube ; anthers narrow. Pod (including stipe 2 in. long) 14-15 

 in. long, 1'5 in. wide, '35 in. thick, black, at first downy, ultimately quite 

 glabrous. Seeds 10-12, oval, "75 in. long, '5 in. wide, '25 in. thick, dark- 

 brown, smooth with a central ovate-lanceolate pale-brown rugose area, 

 Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II. 289. Mimosa pedunculata Roxb. Fl. Ind. II, 

 551. 



Malay Peninsula ; fide Baker. 



Mr. Baker says that this comes from the Malay Peninsula, and on his authority 

 the statement is liere repeated. No botanist has, however, hitherto sent it from the 

 Malay Peninsula; the locality given by Roxburgh is not Malaya, but " the islands 

 to the, eastward of the Bay of Bengal ; " by this Roxburgh indicates the Andamans and 

 Nicobars. Still, no one has gathered it there in recent years, and the precise habitat 

 must for the present be left doubtful. The specimens at Calcutta are (1) Wight's 

 n. 559, the type of the species, cult, in the Missionary Garden; (2) Specimens from 

 Madras Agri.-Hort. Society's Garden collected by Dr. Cleghorn ; (3) Specimens of 

 Roxburgh's plant from the Calcutta Botanic Garden where the tree still grows — 

 these last are exactly like Wight n. 559 and show that the doubts expressed by 

 Wight and Arnott as to the indentity of their plant with Roxbugh's Mimosa pedun- 

 cuiata are unfonnded ; (4) Specimens, no doubt from cultivated examples, sent 

 from Assam by Masters and by Jenkins. This is the only ParJcia at all generally 

 cultivated in Bengal; the next species, which is also grown, is comparatively 

 uncommon. 



P. biglandidosa should then be carefully looked for in the Nicobars and Anda- 

 mans, and particularly in N* Andaman; it is highly improbable that it will be 

 found, in a wild state, either in Indo-China or in Malaya. 



2. Parkia Roxburghii G. Don, Gen. Syst. II, 397. An erect tree 

 40-60 feet high, stem about 2 feet in diam., young branches pubescent. 

 I^eave.s 2-pinnate, main-racliis puberulous or glabrescent, 12-24 in. long ; 

 pinnae 20-30 pairs, opposite; secondary rachises glabrescent 3-6 in. 

 long ; leaflets small, falcately curved forwards, linear-lanceolate, close- 

 set, 40-80 pairs, subequallj truncate at base, apex acute, strongly 1- 

 nerved, puberulous along the margins, "3 in. long, '1 in. wide, petiolar 

 part of main-rachis 2-3 in. long with 1 solitary gland below the lower 

 pair of pinna3 and with 3-5 solitary glands between the bases of as 

 many pairs of pinnae towards apex of rachis. Flowers in dense turbi- 



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