2i6Q Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



An erect unarmed tree 60-80 feet liigb, young shoots rather pale, much 

 lenticellod, subrugose, glabrous, bark pale-gray outside reddish within, 

 stem 1*5-2 feet in diam. ; heart-wood brown. Leaves evenly 2-pinnate ; 

 rachis 12-18 in. long, glabrous, with a large gland '25 in. above the base ; 

 plnnge 2-6-jugate, 5-6 in. long, secondary rachises glabrous, with sessile 

 ovate gland below the last pair of leaflets ; leaflets 6-12 jugate, 

 obliquely ovate to ovate-oblong with petiolules '05 in, long, blunt or 

 subacute, the base obliquely cuneate on upper rounded on lower margin; 

 thinly coriaceous, 1-1*5 in. long, (in young trees sometimes 2 in. long) 

 and •6-*8 in. wide, dark-green glabrous above, paler beneath and when 

 young densely silvery later sparsely adpressed-pubescent. Flmoers in 

 numerous small 20-25-fld. heads, *75 in. across, yellowish-white with 

 pale-yellow stamens ; peduncles slender puberulous or glabrous, '5 in. 

 long, in fascicles of 3-5, less often solitary on nodes in the upper half of 

 numerous racemose branchlets 3-5 in. long at the ends of leafy branches; 

 pedicels 0. Cahjx '1 in. long, teeth triangular distinct, glabrous extern- 

 ally as is the tube. Corolla "25 in. long, teeth lanceolate half as long as 

 tube, densely uniformly pubescent externally. Filaments connate at base 

 in a yellow tube as long as that of corolla, free portion of filaments '35 

 in. lonf,^, greenish-yellow. Fod at length dehiscent, 4-8 in. long, •7-9 

 in. wide, thin, flexible, bright reddish-brown, glossy, sutures straight, 

 slightly thickened ; valves not reticulated. Seeds 6-12, broadly ovate, 

 •35 in. long, '25 in. wide, much compressed, testa smooth pale-brown. 

 Bedd. Flor. Sylvat. 96: Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 21; Bak. in Flor. Brit. 

 Ind. IL 299. Acacia procera Willd. Sp. PI. IV, 1063 ; DC. Prodr. II, 

 4<66; W. & A. Prodr. 275. Acacia elata Grab, in Wall. Cat. 5233; 

 Voigt, Hort. Suburb. Calcutt. 261 (jioi Mimosa elata Roxb. ). Mimosa 

 procera Pvoxb. Cor. PI. t. 121 ; Hort. Beng. 93 ; Flor. Ind. II, 548. 



Andamans; Coco Group, common, Frain ! Disteib. Indo-China, 

 China; Malay Archipelago. 



It is strange that though this species extends from Nepal to Central China on 

 the north and from Java to the Philippines on the south, it sliouhl never have been 

 collected in the Malay Peninsula. More extraordinary still, though quite common 

 at the north end of the Andaniacs, it seems to be altogether absent from the southern 

 islands of that group and from the Nicohars. 



8. Albizzia lucida Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. HI, 86. An 

 unarmed deciduous tree 50-60 feet high, all parts glabrous, bark thin, 

 greyish, pustular, stem 1-1^5 feet in diam. ; heart-wood pale-brown. Leaves 

 evenly 2-pinnate, rachis 1^5-25 in. long, quite glabrous, Avith a sessile 

 cup-shaped gland *3-8 in. above the base and with another neai' the 

 tip ; pinuse usually 1-jugate witli secondary rachis 2-3'5 in. long, with 

 a gland on upper side '25 in. below the distal pair of leaflets and ofteu 

 with a second 25 in. below the penultimate pair, the leaflets usually 2-, 



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