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broacl ; linear-oblong, blunt at both ends, flat, mnch compressed, with 

 slightly thickened sutures, smooth, glossy, pale straw-coloured except 

 opposite the seeds, there reticulated, pale-brown. Seeds 4-12, trans- 

 versely oval, much compressed, "6 in. long, '3 in. wide, *! in. thick, 

 testa smooth, pale-brown. Bedd. Fl. Sylvat. t. 53 ; Bak. in Flor. Biit. 

 Jnd. II, 298. Alhizzia latifolia Boiv. Encyc. II, 38; Miq. Flor. Ind. 

 Bat. I, 22. Acacia Lehhek Willd. Sp. PI. I\^, 1066 ; DC. Prodr. II, 466. 

 Acacia speciosa Willd. Sp. PL IV, 1066 ; DC. Piodr. II, 467 ; W. & A. 

 Prodr. 275. Acacia Sirissa Ham. in Wall. Cat. 5265. Mimosa speciosa 

 Jacq. Ic. t. 108. M. Sirissa Roxb. Hort. Beng. 40 ; Flor. Ind. II, 544. 

 The SiKis. 



Planted in some of the provinces: — Andamans ; Knrz ! Penang; 

 Curtis 296 ! Distrib. Planted throughout the tropics ; appears to be 

 wild in the drier regions of Asia and Africa. 



5. Albizzia pedicellata Bak. ex Benth. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 XXX, 563. A tall erect unarmed tree sometimes over 100 feet high, 

 young shoots dark-coloured, faintly rusty-puberulous, bark dark- 

 coloured ; stem 3 feet in diam., heart- wood black. Leaves evenly 2-pin- 

 nate ; rachis 5-8 in. long, with a large sessile gland '5 in. above base, 

 stipules persisting as two firm recurved thickly coriaceous booklets ; 

 pinnse 6-]2-jugate, 4-6 in. long, the main and secondary rachises alike 

 puberulous ; leaflets J2-16-jugate, oblong-obtuse, sessile, with slightly 

 obliquely rounded base, rigidly subcoriaceous, •5-*75 in long, •3-"4 in. 

 Avide, dark-green above, pale but hardly glaucescent beneath, reticu- 

 late-veined, quite glabrous on both surfaces. Floioers in many-fld. 

 umbels '75-1 in. across, yellowish-wl^ite with green stamens ; pedun- 

 cles slender finely pubescent, 1-1*25 is- long, panicled in fascicles of 2-8 

 on nodes towards the apices of numerous axillary main-rachises, the 

 nodes sometimes evolved as branchlets 1-2 in. long so as to form com- 

 pound umbels ; main-rachis puberulous, the peduncular portion beneath 

 the flowers 3 in. long towards ends of branches, to 12-15 in. long in 

 the axils lower down; pedicels rusty-pubescent very slender, •25-*3 

 in. lono-. Calyx "15 in. long, teeth short deltoid, densely pubescent 

 externally. Corolla "3 in. long, teeth ovate-acute externally, densely 

 pubescent as is the tube. Filaments connate at base in a white tube 

 shorter than corolla, free portions of filaments over 1 in. long, bright- 

 green. Pod indehiscent, 12-18 in. long, 2-25-2-5 in. wide, very thin 

 and brittle, pale yellowish-brown, very faintly reticulated opposite the 

 seeds, sinuate-repand along the un thickened sutures. Seeds 6-9, trans- 

 versely ovate, "25 in. long, '2 in. wide, much compressed, testa smooth 

 dark-brown. Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 299. 



Perak ; Goping, Ulu Bubong, etc. Kunstler 4474 ! 7988 ! 10436 



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