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Albizzia ferruginea and A. malacophylla.—In 1844 Bentham* 
described Albizzia ferruginea from two gatherings, one a flower- 
ing specimen from Gambia, collected by Leprieur, and described 
by Guilleman and Perrottett as Inga ferruginea, the other 
collected in tinea by Schimper ee distributed under the 
name Acacia malacophylla, Steud. atter was afterwards 
described by A. Richard? as Inga malaco, pbytla, and subsequently 
became Albizzia malacophylla, Walpers. Bentham described the 
ovary of A. ferruginea as glabrous, evidently copying Guilleman 
and Perottet, for in Schimper’s specimen the fruits are 
shortly and densely pubescent. In Bentham’s later eorek on 
bizzia, he added to the synonymy and remarked “‘ the Sene- 
gambian plant being only known in flower and the Abyssinian 
one in fruit, their identity is perhaps not yet sufficiently estab- 
lished, although I can discover no character to separate them.” 
In 4 Schweinfurth collected —— ng specimens of the 
eiyacan plant; whilst in 1912 Mr. C. C. Yates collected an 
example of the Senegambian ‘cies in Northern Nigeria with 
flowers and fruits which shows that Bentham’s A. ferruginea 
Le two crea species. Their differences and synonymy 
are as follows 
Albizzia ferruginea, Benth. in Hook. Journ. Bot. iti. 88 (1844), 
et in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. 563 1875), a excl. syn. 
Acacia malacophyllam, Steud., et specimen Schimperianum; 
Oliv. Fl. Tro ep: Afr. ii. 361, Stee Chevalier, Vee. Ut. Afr. 
r. -Dee., 
Ivory Coast: Bingerville Feb., Chevalier 16218. ‘Nigeria! 
Northern Provinces; Agaie, fis. & fr., Feb.-March, Yates 14; 
Southern Provinces ; Awka Distr., 2homas ia 
Albizzia eiitasiphonik. Malp- Ann. ii. 457 8 51-2); Fourn. 
in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. IV. xiv. 376. Inga malacophylla, A. Rich. 
I. Abyss. i. 235, Satta excl. Schimper 1578. Acacia 
malacophyila, Steud. ex A. Rich, l.c., nomen. Albizzia ferr 
nn. 
* Hook. Lond. Journ. iii. 88, 
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