300 L. LEGUMINOS^. (J. G. Baker.) [Albizzia. 



branches of the panicle umbellate or corymbose. Calyx i in., faintly-toothed. ' Corolla 

 3-4 times the length of the calyx ; teeth lanceolate. Pod 6-8 in. by 1-1 , thin, flexible, 

 pale brown, 6-S-seeded. 



6. A. glomeriflora, Kurz in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Seng. xlii. 2, 74 ; leaflets 

 usually 6 rarely 4 middle-sized acute, heads copiously panicled, calyx minute 

 sessile campanulate. Benth. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. 560. 



MABTABAN, Kurz. 



A shrub, 2-5 ft. high, with puberulous branchlets. Pinna unijugate ; leaflets 

 oblong- or subrhomboidal-lanceolate, 1-2 in. long, chartaceous, nearly glabrous 

 above when mature, glaucescent and downy beneath. Heads the size of a pea, in 

 axillary racemes and terminal panicles. Calyx under ^ in., pubescent. Corolla 

 thrice as long as the calyx, deeply lobed, pubescent, greenish-white. Pod unknown. 

 Ex Kurz loc. cit. 



** Leaflets narrow, dimidiate-lanceolate, with the midrib close to the upper 

 edge. 



7. A. Julibrissin, Durazz.; Benth. in Hook. Journ. Bot. 1844, 91; 

 leaflets 20-60, stipules and bracts caducous, heads of flowers not panicled, corolla 

 three times as long as the calyx. Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 639. Acacia Julibrissin 

 and Nemu, Willd. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 469. Mimosa Kalkora, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 40; 

 Fl. Ind. ii. 547 ? M. arborea, Thunb. Fl. Jap. 229. 



Throughout the Himalayas from HAZARA to SIKKIM, ascending to 6-7000 ft. Dis- 

 TEIB. Abyssinia, Eastern and Central Asia, China, Japan. 



A middle-sized unarmed tree. jLe/-rachises finely downy, with a small gland at 

 the base of the petiole, and between the upper pinnae; pinnae 8-24; leaflets mem- 

 branous, sessile, sensitive,' in. long, cuspidate, straight on the upper side, rounded 

 on the lower, ^in. broad. Heads globose, on cl us tered erecto-patent peduncles from the 

 crowded leafless upper nodes. Calyx -% in., funnel-shaped, shortly toothed. Fila- 

 ments rose-red, 1 in. Pod glabrous, membranous, grey or pale brown, 5-6 in. by 

 f-1 in., 8-12-seeded, narrowed to a beak and short stalk, indehiscent. 



VAR. mollis, Benth. ; leaflets broader (-5- in,) more coriaceous, like the peduncles 

 and calyx densely pubescent. Acacia mollis, Wall. PI. As. Rar,ii. 76, t. 177 ; Cat. 

 5235. Simla to Nipal. 



8. A. stipulata, Boiv. ; Benth. in Hook. Journ. Bot. 1844, 92 ; leaflets 

 40-80, stipules and bracts persistent, heads of flowers panicled, corolla twice the 

 calyx. Dak. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 88 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 55. Acacia stipulata, 

 DC. Prodr. ii. 469; Wall. Cat. 5236; W. $ A. Prodr. 274. A. Smithiana, 



Wall. Cat. 5237. A. niarginata, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 5243. Mimosa stipu- 

 lacea, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 549. M. Smithiana, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 40 ; FL Ind. ii. 

 550.. Arthrosprion stipulatum, Hassk. Retz. i. 212. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYAS, ascending to 4000 ft. in KTJMAON and SIKKIM, to CEYLON and 

 BIRMA. DISTRIB. Malay isles. 



A tall unarmed tree, with finely grey downy branchlets. Leaves with many glands 

 on the rachis ; pinnae 12-40 ; leaflets ~ in. or less broad, membranous, sensitive, 

 - in., sessile, glaucous beneath, finely downy, with a slightly, recurved acute point. 

 Stipules and bracts large, membranous, downy, cordate, acute. Heads in copious ax- 

 illary simple and compound terminal racemes with densely pubescent erecto-patent 

 branches. Calyx like that of A. Julibrissin, but smaller. Pod 5-6 in. by f-1 in., 

 pale brown, thin, indehiscent, subsessile, 8-10-seeded. 



*** Leaflets very narrowly strap-shaped ivith a central midrib. 



9. A. myriophylla, Benth. in Hook. Journ. 1844, 90; leaflets 80-100 



