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Prnang ; Waterfall, Gurtis 1921 ! Malacca ; Maingay 581 ! 586 ! 

 Goodenongh, 1796 ! SINGAPORE; Kranji Road, Bidley 6297 ! 

 A very fine species. 



6. Albizzia odoratissima Bentli. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. Ill, 

 88. A tall erect unarmed tree sometimes 100 feet high, young shoots 

 rather dark-coloured, stem 2-2'5 feet in diam., heart-wood black. 

 Leaves evenly 2-pinnate ; rachis 6-12 in. long, finely-downy, with a large 

 sessile gland '5 in. above base and 1-2 small ones between the bases of 

 the distal pairs of pinnae, stipules small quite deciduous; pinnae 3-4- 

 ( rarely 2-) jugate, usually 5-8 in. long, the secondary rachises glabrous 

 or pubescent ; leaflets 8-24-jugate, obliquely oblong, sessile, obtuse, with 

 very obliquely rounded base, rigidly subcoriaceous, '75-1 in. long, 'S-'S 

 in. wide, dark-green above, glaucescent beneath, recticulafe- veined, the 

 midrib removed by one-third from, and parallel to, the upper edge, 

 glabrous or faintly sparsely adpressed-hairy above, more densely ad- 

 pressed-hairy beneath. Flowers in numerous small 10-12-fld. heads 

 '75-1 in. across, yellowish-white with pale-yellow stamens ; peduncles 

 slender, puberulous, '75 in. long, solitary or oftener in fascicles of 3-6 on 

 nodes in the upper third of numerous small corymbose branchlets 2-2*5 

 in. long, themselves in panicles 8-12 in. long at the ends of leafy 

 branches ; pedicels 0. Calyx '05 in. long, teeth obsolete, tube campanul- 

 ate, externally densely pubescent. Corolla '15 in. long, oblong in bud, 

 teeth ovate-lanceolate, externally densely grey-silky as is the tube. 

 Filaments connate at the base in a white tube half as long as that of the 

 corolla, free portion of filaments '4 in. long, pale-yellow. Fod indehis- 

 cent, 6—9 in. long, 1'2-1'6 in. wide, thin, flexible, warm-brown, glossy or 

 dull, sutures straight or slightly repand ; valves uniformly wide-reticu- 

 late. Seeds 8-12, broadly ovate, "3 in. long, '25 in. wide, much com- 

 pressed, testa smooth, dull greenish-yellow, faintly areolate. Bedd. Flor, 

 Sylvat. t. 54; Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 299. Albizzia micrantha 

 Boiv. Encyc. II, 34; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 24. Acacia odoratissima 

 WiUd. Sp. PI. ly, 1063; DC. Prodr. II, 466; Wall. Cat. 5234; W. & 

 A. Prodr. 275. Acacia lomatocarpa DC. Prodr. II, 467. Mimosa odora- 

 tissima Linn. f. Suppl. 437 ; Roxb. Cor. PI. t. 120 ; Hort. Beng. 40 ; FI. 

 Ind. II, 546. Mimosa marginata Lamk. Encyc. Meth. 1, 12. The Black 



SlRIS. 



Malacca; (/tZe Baker). Distrib, India and Indo-China. 

 Mr. Baker notes the presence of this in Malacca and the species is therefore 

 inclnded here. It is, however, possible that Mr. Baker's specimens are from 

 planted trees, for no botanist has ever communicated Malayan specimens to the 

 Calcutta Herbarium. 



7. Albizzia procera Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. Ill, 89. 



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