Pithecolobium.~] LEGUMINOSAE. 433 



and leaves with very many very small leaflets, the young 

 shoots yellow-pubescent. The wood is purplish-brown 

 with lighter bands, very hard and strong, used in building 

 and agricultural work. Yern. Tel. Nalla renga ; Tarn. 

 "WYmja ; Mai. Yaracchi. 



7. ALBIZZIA MARGINATA, Merr. A. stipulata, Boiv. ; F.B.I. ii. 

 300; Bedd. Fl. t. 55. Acacia stipulata, DC. ; W. & A. 274. 

 N. Circars and Deccan, in hill forests ; "W. Ghats, in 

 deciduous forests and up to 3,000 ft. or higher ; sometimes 

 planted as a shade tree for coffee. 



A large deciduous tree with white flowers with pink fila- 

 ments and leaves with very many falcate leaflets. Bark 

 grey, horizontally furrowed ; wood brown, soft, of less value 

 than that of the other species. Yern. Hind. Siran; Tel. 

 Konda chiragu ; Tarn. Pili vagei ; Mai. Potta vaga. 

 Albizzia lophantha, Benth. is an Australian shrub, culti- 

 vated and run wild on the Nilgiris and Pulneys. 



85. Pithecolobium, Mart. 



Erect trees or shrubs, unarmed or with spinescent stipules or 

 axillary spines. Leaves bipinnate, pinnae even-pinnate ; stipules 

 various ; stipels 0. Flowers usually hermaphrodite, in globose 

 heads on solitary fascicled or racemed peduncles, axillary at the 

 ends of branches ; bracts small ; bracteoles under the calyx 

 caducous or sometimes persistent. Calyx campanulate, shortly 

 5-toothed. Petals 5, rarely 6, connate in a tubular corolla with 

 5 valvate lobes. Stamens monadelphous, much exserted ; anthers 

 small. Ovary sessile or stalked, many-ovuled ; style filiform ; 

 stigma minute. Pod strap-shaped, circinate or falcate, sometimes 

 coriaceous, sometimes moniliform, usually dehiscent and much 

 twisted, the sutures not thickened. Seeds ovate or orbicular, 

 compressed, sometimes arillate. 



Stipules, spinose : 



Pinnae 1 pair, each with 1 pair of leaflets reaching 2 in. in length ; 

 flowers in close heads in long narrow terminal panicles; pods 



twisted, coriaceous, the seeds with a white edible aril 1. dulce. 



Pinnae 1-2 pairs, each with 5-8 pairs of oblong leaflets reaching 

 75 in. in length ; flowers in axillary heads on long peduncles ; pods 

 curved, not twisted, thick, with 6-8 moniliform rounded joints with 

 flat circular seeds 2. umbellatum- 



