298 L. LEGUMiNOSfl. (J. Gr. Baker.) [Acacia* 



VAB. 1. canescens, Grab, in "Wall. Cat. 5256, sp. ; branches and leaf-rachises densely 

 pubescent, leaflets slightly downy below. A. csesia, Wall. Cat. 5253 A. A. ambly- 

 carpa, Grab, in Wall Cat. 5260. A. concinna, Wall. Cat. 5250 D? A. tomentella,. 

 Zipp. ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 1 3. 



VAR. 2. arrophula, Don ; "Wall. Cat. 5257, sp. ; pinnae more numerous, leaflets 

 duller in colour and not so firm in texture, panicle more elongated and compound,, 

 peduncles often 4-6-nate. Eastern Himalayas. 



VAR. 3. pluricapitata, Steud. ; Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. 1842, 516, sp. ; 

 pinnae 40-80 not more than 1^-1 in. long, leaflets very narrow and crowded, petiolar 

 glands much smaller, panicle elongated sometimes a foot long above the leaves, pe- 

 duncle often 6-8-nate, heads smaller, A. polycephala, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5255, non 

 DC. Martaban, Penang, and Malacca. Distrib. Malay isles. 



IMPERFECTLY KNOWN SPECIES. 



A. WIGHTII, Baker. In Dr. Wight's collection are specimens without fruit of a 

 well-marked species near A. arabica, from Travancore and Tinnevelly, with glabrous 

 branchlets and leaf-rachises, large straight dark-brown spines, 2-8 pinnae, 12-32 

 oblique oblong glabrous subcoriaceous leaflets -f in. long, short glabrous 2-4-nate 

 peduncles with the involucre below the middle, funnel-shaped shortly-toothed calyx 

 in. long, and a minute campanulate glabrous calyx. 



128. ALBIZ.ZIA, Durazz. 



Large trees. Leaves bipinnate. Flowers in the Indian speciefin globose heads, 

 sessile or pedicellate, usually pentamerous and all hermaphrodite. Calyx 

 campanulate or .funnel-shaped, distinctly toothed. Corolla funnel-shaped, 

 petals firmly united below the middle. Stamens indefinite, monadelphous at the 

 base, filaments several times the length of the corolla ; anthers minute, not 

 gland-crested. Ovary sessile or shortly-stalked ; style filiform, stigma capi- 

 tate minute. Pod large, thin, flat, strap-shaped, straight, indehiscent or sub- 

 indehiscent, continuous within, the sutures not thickened. DISTRIB. Species 

 25-30, spread through the Tropics of the Old World. 



The Australian A. lophantha, which resembles A. amara in the leaves but has the 

 flowers in spikes, is naturalised on the Nilghiris. 



* Leaflets oblong L at least ^ ^ in. broad. 



1.. A. Ziebbek, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. 1844, 8p; leaflets 8-18, 

 obtuse, heads not panifcled, calyx pedicellate funnel-shaped. Dalz. fy Gibs. Bomb. 

 Fl. 88 ; Bedd. PL Sylv. t. 53 ; "Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 639. Acacia Lebbek, Willd. ; 

 DC. Prodr. ii. 466. < A. speciosa, Willd. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 467 ; W. # A. Prodr. 

 275. Mimosa speciosa, Jacq. Ic. t. 198. Acacia Sirissa, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 

 5265. Mimosa Sirissa, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 40 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 544. Albizzia lati- 

 folia, Boivin ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 22. 



Tropical HIMALAYAS, ascending to 5000 ft. in the Central Provinces and 4000 ft. 

 in KHASIA ; through INDIA PROPER and CEYLON to BIRMA and TENASSERIM. DISTRIB. 

 Malay isles, China, N. Australia, Trop. Africa. 



A tall tree, without prickles. Leaves with glabrous or downy rachises, and a 

 large gland near the base of the main petiole ; pinnae 4-8, with or without a gland 

 between the lowest ; leaflets short-stalked, rigidly subcoriaceous, oblique, l-l in. 

 long, glabrous or finely grey-downy. Heads many-flowered, short-peduncled, 3-4 to- 

 gether from the crowded upper nodes on downy erecto-patent peduncles. Calyx in., 

 downy. Corolla greenish-yellow, twice the calyx, the teeth short, lanceolate. Pod 

 strap-shaped, firm, yellow-brown, ^-1 ft. by f-l in., 6-10-seeded. 



