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pubescent, bark thinnish, dark-brown, much lenticelled. Leaves evenly 

 2-pinnate ; racbis 5-9 in. long, dejisely tawny-pubescent, with a medium 

 sessile gland very near the base and with 2-4 small glands between 

 the bases of as many pairs of distal pinnas, stipules subpersisteut, 

 subalate, puberulous, -15 in. long, deciduous ; pulvinus haideuing into 

 a recurved almost woody hook; pinnae i2-20-jugate, 1-1-5 in. lono-, 

 their rachises sparsely pubescent ; leaflets 85-50 pairs, crowded, 

 linear, sessile, slightly falcate, apex subacute, base slightly oblique, 

 rigidly chartaceous, •2-25 in. long, 07 in. wide, dark-green and glabrous 

 above, margin ciliolate or glabrous, paler beneath and glabrous or 

 sometimes sparsely ad pressed-pubescent ; midrib central. Floivers in 

 small 10-20-fld. heads "5 in. across, pale-yellow with greenish -yellow 

 stamens, or white ; peduncles slender puberulous, •4-*5 in. long, solitary 

 or 2-6 together on nodes iu the upper half of pubescent corymbose 

 branchlets 1-1"5 in. long, with pubescent ovate-acute bracts "2 in. lono* 

 usually accompanied by 2 subulate stipules like those of the leaves, the 

 branchlets disposed in terminal leafy panicles 4-8 in. long, 2-4 in. 

 wide; pedicels 0. Calyx ca?npanulate, teeth small, ovate-acute tube 

 externally densely pubescent, '04 in. long. Corolla infundibuliform 

 yellowish or white, '15 in. long, teeth ovate-lanceolate one-third the 

 tube and like it uniformly externally softly puberulous. Filaments 

 few, 12-20, united below in a white tube half as long as that of corolla 

 free portion greenish or white, '4 in. long. Pod dehiscent, 4-5 in. long, 

 •8-1-2 in. wide, thin, flexible, bright-brown, smooth and shining; op- 

 posite the seeds darker and distinctly reticulated. Seeds 6-8, obovate 

 apex obtuse, base cuneate, '25 in. long, 2 in wide, much compressed, 

 testa dull-brown, smooth, distinctly areolate. Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. 

 *II, 300. Acacia myriopliylla Grab, in Wall. Cat. 6242. A. foUolosa 

 Grab, in Wall. Cat. 5241. Mimosa microphylla Roxb. Fl. Ind. II 549. 



Kedah ; Laiigkawi, Curtis 2135 ! 2801 ! Penang ; Curtis 718 I 1702 ! 

 Kunstler 1444 ! Perak ; Scortechini 28 ! 128 ! 



This does not become a tree. When a climber it has not the assistance, as in 

 clirabiug Acacias, of prickles ; it developes however hard recurved liooks, that help 

 to serve as hold-fascs, from the thickening of the pnlvini at the leaf-bases. 



2. Albizzia stipulata Boiv. Enycl. XIX Siecle II, 33. An un- 

 armed evergreen tree, often 100-120 feet high, young shoots finely grey- 

 downy, bark dark-grey rugose, stem 3-4 feet thick ; heart- wood dark- 

 brown. Leaves evenly 2-pinnate, rachis 6-18 in. long, pubescent, with 

 a large sessile gland 1 in above the base and with 2-6 small between 

 the bases of as many distal pairs of pinnas ; pinnae 6-20-jugate, the 

 secondaiy rachises tawny-pubescent, 2*5-4 in. long; leaflets 20-45- 

 jugate, dimidiately falcate-lanceolate, sessile, apex acute slightly pointed 



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