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Cor. PL I. t. 99 ; Hort. Beng. 40 ; Flor. Ind. II, 556. Inga dulcis Willd. 

 Sp. PL lY, 1005; DC. Piodr. II, 436; WulL Cat. 5282; W. & A 

 Prodr. 268'; Wight, Ic. t. 198. 



Cultivated in most of tlie Provinces ; Penang ; Curtis 59 ! Singa- 

 pore ; Maingay 579 ! Andamans : common. NlCOBARS ; Car Nicobar, 

 icing's Collector ! 



A native of America whence it has been introduced, by way of the Philippines, 

 to Malaj'a generally, and to India. 



2. PiTHECOLOBiUM cOxNFERTUM Bcuth. Trans. Linn. Soc. XXX, 304. 

 An unarmed small tree with glabrous lenticelled branclilets with dark- 

 brown bark. Leaves evenly 2-pinnate, rachis glabrous '75 in. long, 

 with no basal gland but with a long elliptic gland just below the bases 

 of the 1- jugate pinnae ; racliises of pinnae glabrous, 2 in. long, with 

 glands between the bases of each of the 2 pairs of leaflets glabrous on 

 both surfaces, bright-green shining above, paler dull beneath, rigidly 

 papery, oblong, shortly obtusely pointed, cuneate at base, distal 325-3*75 

 in. long, 175-2 in. wide, proximal 2*5 in. long, 1"25 in. wide, lateral 

 nerves 3-4 pairs ascending ; petiolules distinct, glabrous, -2 in. long. 

 Flowers in small 5-10-fld. heads 75 in. across, on pubescent pedicels 

 •75 in. long, arranged in small axillary and terminal corymbs 2 in. long 

 and broad with pubescent raain-rachises, 1 in. long or less. Calyx 

 sessile '05 in. long, puberulous, campanulate, teeth obsoleie; bracteoles 

 minute. Corolla white, 25 in. long, tube glabrescent externally, twice 

 as long as the lanceolate teeth, puberulous on the outside. Filaments 

 united at base in a tube slightly longer than that of corolla, free portion 

 white, exserted '35 in. Ovary glabrous, subsessile. Fud indehiscent, 

 slightly turgid, horse-shoe shaped or loosely spirally twisted, 10-12 in. 

 long, 1*5 in. wide, sutures firm not at all indented between the seeds, 

 valves thinly coriaceous, glabrous, shining, faintly wide-reticulate. Seeds 

 11-13, compressed ovate, 75 in. long, '5 in, wide, '25 in. thick; testa 

 blown, dull, areolate on the outside, thick, tough and leathery. Bale, 

 in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 304. Alhizzia splendens Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. 

 Suppl. 280. 



Malacca; Griffith 1951! Goodenough 1766! Hervey ! Distrib. 

 Sumatra {Teysmann 4228) ! 



This species is remarkable in having pods that do not twist spirally and that are 

 apparently quite indehiscent. The seeds have no true arillns but have a thick softly 

 coriaceous tough coat which apparently takes the place of an arillnte structure. 



3. PiTHECOLOBiUM BDBALINUM Benth. Trans. Linn. Soc. XXX, 576. 

 An unarmed tree 30 feet high with pale-brown pubescent branchlets 

 and grey bark. Leaves evenly 2-pinnate, rachis puberulous "5 in. long, 

 with no basal gland but with a round gland just below^ the bases of the 



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