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1159! 1790! Knnstler 2326! 3331! 3771! 4799! 4822! 5674! 6637! 

 10104 ! Penang ; fide Baker. Singapore, fide Baker. Distrib. Borneo 

 i^fide Miquel) ; Java ! and Snraatra ! 



A very common species for which none of our English collectors have cited 

 a Malay name ; Hasekarl and Miqnel give the Javanese name aa " KitjangJ* 



This is certainly the P. fasciculatum alike of Baker and of Miquel and is the 

 Albizzia fasciculata of Kurz. Mr. Baker moreover quotes Wall. Cat. 5268 — the 

 basis of Bentham's species, and Wall. Cat. 5270 B. from Singapore as the same. 

 There is unfortunately no example of either of these Wallichian numbers at Cal- 

 cutta though there are examples both of the Griffithian and the Maingayan Malacca 

 sheets named P. fasciculatum by Mr. Bentham himself. The original description 

 given by Mr. Bentham states that the pinnae of P. fasciculatum are 1- jugate, and the 

 account of the species being incomplete in other respects it seems better to treat the 

 identity of Bentham's plant with Hasskarl's one as doubtful. As regards Hasskarl'e 

 plant no dubiety is possible ; his description is very complete and accurate and 

 there is besides an authentic example of his species in the Calcutta Herbarium. 

 Since in any case Hasskarl's name conserves the oldest specific epithet, it may be 

 better to continue its use even if it should turn out that Bentham's P. fasciculatum 

 is really the same thing. 



Mr. Kurz's identification of P. macrophyllum T. & B., with this species cannot 

 be sustained, for Teysmann's tree is a very distinct one with pods lobed as in P. 

 lohatum though with leaves very different from those of P. lohatum ; the leaflets while 

 much larger than, considerably resemble those of P. eUipticum. Mr. Kurz's notice of 

 P. macrophyllum T. & B., in 1876, appears to be the earliest mention of the plant. 

 As another species from America, P. macrophyllmn Spruce, was published in 1875, it 

 is necessary to re-name Teysmann's plant P. Teysmanni, 



By a lapsus calami the Index Kexvensis gives Inga elliptica Bl. as the name, 

 Pithecolohium eUipticum Hassk. as a synonym, for our species ; the reverse is the 

 actual state of affairs. The tree has not been sent to Calcutta from Penang or 

 from Singapore during recent years. 



9. PiTHECOLOBiUM KuNSTLERi Prain. A tree 20-30 feet high, with 

 spreading branches ; branchlets slightly pubescent, stem 8-12 in. thick, 

 bark brown. Leaves evenly 2-pinnate, rachis puberulous 15-2*5 in. 

 long, with 1 or 2 large elliptic glands some distance below the bases of the 

 1 or 2 pairs of pinnae ; rachises of terminal pinnae 4 in. long with large 

 glands some distance below the bases of the 3 pairs of leaflets, basal 

 rachises when present '5 in. long with a gland some distance below 

 the l-jugate leaflets ; leaves in the inflorescence sometimes small with 

 short l-jngate pinnae and small l-jugate leaflets ; leaflets ovate with 

 rounded bases and rather long caudate- acuminate blunt apices, pale 

 yellowish-green, glabrous shining above, dull uniformly sparsely ad- 

 pressed-puberulous beneath, distal pair 3-45 in. long, 1-2 in. wide, 

 proximal 1-2 in. long, '5-1 in. wide ; those of the basal pinnae 1-5-2-5 

 in. long, l-L-5 in. wide; petiolules puberulous, '15 in. long. Flowers in 

 4-8-fld. heads •5-- 75 in. across, on puberulous pedicels '5 in. long, sparse- 

 ly racemose, singly or 2-3 together in axils of bracts or subumbellate or 



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