Albizzia.'] L. LEGUMINOSJE. (J. Gr. Baker.) 301 



rigidly subcoriaceous, heads panicled stipules persistent subspinescent, pod 

 subsessile. Mimosa microphylla, Roxb. FL 2nd. ii. 549. Acacia rnyriophylla. 

 Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5242. 



EASTERN HIMALAYAS, ascending to 3000 ft. in SIKKIM. SILHET, ASSAM, and the 

 KHASIA MTS. DISTRIB. Siam. 



A low tree, with dark brown shoots, Leaf-T&chises finely downy, with a large 

 gland on the petiole, and several between the upper pinnae ; pinnae 30-40, not more than 

 2-3 in. long ; leaflets green, closely crowded, caducous, | in. by ^ in. Heads small, 

 corymbose, forming an ample terminal panicle, with brown-tomentose branches. Calyx 

 sessile, campanulate, under -$ in. long. Corolla funnel-shaped, ^ in. Pod 4-5 in. 

 by f-1 in., glossy, brown, thin, flexible, 6-8-seeded, narrowed to both ends. 



Vj^R.foliolosa ; leaflets large ^-f in. long nearly ^ in. broad, rachises less pubes- 

 cent. Acacia foliolosa, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5241. Martaban, Wallich. 



10. A . amara, Boivin ; Benth. in Hook. Journ. Bot. 1844, 90 : leaflets 

 30-60 membranous, stipules minute caducous, heads not panicled, pod distinctly 

 stalked. Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. FL 88 : Bedd. FL Sylv. t. 61. Acacia amara, 

 Wittd. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 469; Wall. Cat. 5238 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 274. A. nelly- 

 renza (nella-renga), Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5240. A. Wightii, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 

 5259 ; W.fyA. Prodr. 274. Mimosa amara, Roxb. Cor. PL t. 122 ; Hort. Beng. 

 40 ; FL Ind. ii. 548. M. pulchella, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 40 ; FL Ind. ii. 548. 

 Inga ventricosa, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5266, ex part e. Albizzia affinis, Fourn. in 

 Ann. Sc. Nat. 4, xiv. 371. 



WESTEEN PENINSTTLA and CEYLON. DISTRIB. Abyssinia (A. sericocephala, Benth.) 

 and Kordofan. 



A middle-sized unarmed tree, with densely pubescent branchlets and leaf-rachis, 

 the latter with a small gland on the petiole* and between the lowest pair of pinnae. 

 Pinnce 8-20, 1-3 in. long ; leaflets |-^ in. long, sessile, caducous, finely pubescent, 

 grey or glaucous beneath. Peduncles copious, axillary, densely tomentose, crowded at 

 the upper nodes in the axils of much-reduced leaves. Calyx ^ in., funnel-shaped, 

 shortly stalked. Corolla 3 times as long as the calyx ; teeth lanceolate. Pod 6-9 in. 

 by f-1 in., 6-10-seeded, opaque, grey-brown. 



129. SERIANTHES, Benth. 



Unarmed trees. Leaves bipinnate. Flowers racemed, much larger than in 

 the other Mimosce, 5-merous, mostly hermaphrodite. Calyx deeply campanulate, 

 deeply toothed. Petals adnate at the base to the staminal tube, free above 

 this. Stamens monadelphous, very numerous ; anthers minute. Ovary sessile, 

 many-ovuled ; style filiform, stigma minute capitate. Pod large, oblong, sub- 

 lignose, indehiscent, rather turgid. DISTEIB. Another species in Polynesia. 



1. S. grandiflora Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. 1844, 225. Inga 

 grandiflora, Wall. Cat. 5285. I. Finlaysoniana, Wall. Cert. 5284. I. ventri- 

 cosa, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5266, in part. 



MALACCA, Griffith, Maingay. DISTRIB. Malay isles, Philippines. 



jLefl/-rachis with a gland on the common petiole and at the base of each pinna ; 

 pinnae 6-16 ; leaflets 12-24, glossy green, glabrous, rigidly coriaceous, -1 in. long, 

 oblique, rather falcate, obtuse, with the upper and lower edge subparallel. Flowers 

 shortly pedicellate, in few-flowered axillary corymbose panicles, which are shorter 

 than the leaves. Calyx and yellowish corolla densely felted on the outside, the 

 former ^ in., the latter 1^- in. long. Stamens many hundreds, much exserted. 



