Pithecellobium 



LEGUMINOSJi! 



149 



1200 ft. ; Stanmore Hill, 2200 ft. ; Kempshot, 1500 ft. ; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 

 8800, 8960, 8975, 9077, 9182, 9263, 9921, 9948, 10,243, 10,329. 



Tree 30-40 ft. high. Leaves 7-12 cm. 1. Leaflets unequal-sided, very 

 variable in form and size, rhomboid or obliquely elliptical, '8-5 cm. 1., 

 •4-3 '5 cm. br., with a close network of veins on both sides, glabrescent ; 

 pinna 4-10 cm. 1. Glands between each pair of pinnae and usually below 

 each pair of leaflets. Peduncles 1 or 2 in the axils of leaves, 3-10 cm. 1. 

 Racemes 3-7 cm. 1., densely or laxly flowered. Flowers pale yellow or 

 greenish yellow, fragrant ; pedicels 4-1 mm. 1. Calyx 2-3 mm. 1. Corolla 

 about twice as long as the calyx. Stamens twice as long as corolla. Seeds 

 white, with a horse-shoe-shaped greenish-blue mark opposite the attach- 

 ment on each face, lens-shaped, almost round, about 7 mm. in diam. 



48. ZYGIA P. Browne. 



Trees without spines. Pinnse in 1 pair ; common petiole very 

 short. Leaflets large, in 1-5 pairs. Glands between the pinnae, 



Fig. 46.- 

 A, Leaf and inflorescence X \. 



-Zygia latifolia Fawc. & Rendle. 



B, Flower with the stamens cut off above X 2. 

 C, Pod X h 



and between the leaflets. Flowers in heads or spikes at the 

 nodes of branches which have dropped their leaves, similar to 

 those of Pithecellobium; peduncles wanting or short, clustered. 



