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deciduous; ‘inflorescence in dense subspicate racemes 15 ст. long, оп axillary 
pedunules 20—30 cm. long with 2—3 widely separated empty bracts; rachis rusty- 
tomentose, flowers 2—3 together on rounded alternate nodes 5—6 mm. apart; bracts 
1:25 cm. long, linear, reflexed, rusty-pubescent, early deciduous; ca/yz campanulate, 
1 cm. long with 2 small obtuse bracteoles at the base; pedicels 4 mm. long, rusty- 
puberulous, teeth subequal triangular except the upper rather wide-truncate, half 
as long as tube; corolla pale-pink, 2 еш, long, standard-limb orbicular-emarginate ; 
pods few, 1—2-seeded, 8—10 cm. long, 5 cm. wide, 1:25 em. thick along the 
upper suture, at first sparsely adpressed-rusty-silky, at length glabrescent; seeds 
discoid, dark-brown, 3 cm. in diam. Bak. in Hook. f. Flor. Brit Ind, ii, 195 (1876) ; 
Prain in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. lxvi. 2. 60 (1897). Dolichos hexandra Rozb. Hort, 
Beng. 55 (1814). D. coriaceus Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5562 (1830). 
Assam: Silhet. AxpAMANS: very common. MALAY PENINSULA: Perak, etc. 
The vexillary stamen in this species is free at the base but not above; it is 
rather shorter than the others and bears a perfect anther; the anthers of the 9 stamens 
forming the sheath are alternately perfect and abortive; there are thus 5 perfect anthers 
on the sheath and a sixth perfect anther on the vexillary stamen.  T'his structure pro- 
vided Roxburgh with the excellent specific name that has usually been overlooked. 
Partly on this account, and partly on account of the interesting characters of the 
plant, a copy is now given of Roxburgh’s original figure. 
PrarE 40.—Dioclea reflexa Hook. f. 1, branch with leaf and inflorescence; 2, inflorescence; 
3, tip of young branch; 4, details of flower; 5, pod opened to show seed ,—all 49 natural size, and 
all taken from Roxburgh’s original MSS. drawing of Dolichos hexandra. 
б; K.; р. Р, 
PLATE 41. 
41. ALBIZIA Өамвікг Prain in Journ. As, Soc. Beng. lxvi. 2. 513 (1897). 
Natural order Leguminose. 
A tree 50 feet high; laves 8—10 cm. long, 2-pinnate, ріппе 4—6 with a large 
gland 5 mm. above the base of the main-achis and with large projecting glands 
on each secondary rachis at the bases of the distal pairs of leaflets; leaflets ovate- 
lanceolate, acute or subacute, 10—14 on the distal 6—8 on the proximal piunæ, in all 
cases ecreasing slightly downwards, base cuneate from the middle, 1:5—5 em, long, 
1—2:5 em. wide, pale-green above, glaueeecent beneath, sparsely adpressed-puberulous on 
both surfaces; stipules minute; heads many-flowered, panicled, the ultimate branches of 
the panicle umbellate ; calyz 2 mm., campanulate, shortly pedicelled, puberulous externally, 
teeth minute; pedicels “5 mm. long; corolla 4 mm. long, teeth oblong-lanceolate ; 
filaments about 25, 7 mm. long, connate in their lower third; pod 15—90 сш. long, 
2°5—3°25 cm. wide, thin, rather firm, strap-shaped, the base narrow-cuneate, the tip 
blunt, pale straw-coloured, very faintly reticulate; seeds *6 ,8ھ‎ irregularly oval, 
10 mm. long, 6 mm. wide, 1:5 mm. thick, testa brown, dull, lateral areola faint. 
Albizzia Lebbek Gamble, Trees, etc., of Darjeeling Dist. 33 (1878; Ed. 2, 1896) 
not of Benth. А. procera Clarke, Journ. Linn. Soc, xxv. 18 (1889) not of Benth. 
N.-W. HixanayA: Kangra; Lace 7 E. HIALAYA: Sikkim ; Gamble 161! 7486! 
9661! Naca Huius: Kohima; Clarke 41480! Cina: Yunnan, near Mengtze; Henry? 
