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Cultivated in the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta, since 1841; native of Madagascar, 
The seeds, sent by Mons. Richard, were received by Dr. Wallich on 20th 
January, 1841, with the note ‘‘Gagnebina spec. Bel arbre de Madagascar.” In his 
manuscript Catalogue Dr. Wallich gave the tree the manuscript name Gagnebina 
Richardiana Wall, which name was duly published by Voigt in the Hortus Suburbonus 
Calcuttensis. This name was however subsequently lost sight of and the origin of 
the tree forgotten, for Dr. Т. Anderson іп his Catalogue has used the name 
Albizzia paludosa, and has indicated that to him the native country of the tree was 
unknown. In a subsequent Catalogue issued by Dr. G. Henderson the double error is 
made of citing as the author of the species Mr. Bentham, who probably never 
залу a specimen, and giving as its native country Mexico, where no Albizzia is indigenous 
This species is evidently near, yet is obviously different from, A. polyphylia, a Mada- 
gascar plant described by Fournier in Ann, Se. Nat. ser. iv. xiv. 372 (1860) and 
indeed is rather to be referred to Fournier’s group Falcifoliatae thun to the Mizrophyile 
within which A. polyphylla is placed. To the kindness of M. Drake del Castillo 
we are indebted for a comparison of A. paludosa with another Madagascar plant ten- 
tatively named A. Jernieri (Bernier n. 162) loc. cil.8 name omitted from the excel- 
lent Index Kewensis, We have deemed it best, in view of the confusion that has taken 
place, to conserve the oldest specific name. 
Pirate 42.—Albizzia Richardiana King $ Prain. 1, twig from tree in flower,—of natural size; 
2, single leaflet, from above and from beneath, x 3; 8, single flower; 4, calyx, laid open; 5, 
corolla, laid open; 6; staminal tube, laid open; 7, ovary; 3—7 all much enlarged; 8, twig from 
same tree in fruit,—of natural size; 93; seed,—of natural size, 
Frontisrirce. Albizzia Richardiana in Royal Botanie Garden, Calcutta,—from a photograph by 
J. Н. Lace, Esq. r.L.s. 
ось. D. b. 
PLATE 43. 
43. PIPTADENIA OUDHENSIS Brandis, For. Fl. 168 (1874). 
Natural order Leguminose. 
A small or medium-sized tree, glabrous except the inflorescence; bark of stem 
and older branches greyish- or reddish-brown, rough with flat exfoliating woody scales; 
inner-bark red, fibrous; branches armed with large compressed conical prickles ; 
branchlets drooping ; Laves abruptly bipinnate; pinnae 4, long-stalked, each of a single 
pair of leaflets; primary and secondary petioles with a large flat circular gland 
_ at the base of each pair of pinnae; leaflets 5—10 em. long and 4—9 cm. broad, 
on short, stout, transversely wrinkled stalks, obovate-rhomboid or reniform, entire, 
subcoriaceous; veins prominent on both surfaces, anastomosing and forming loops within 
the margin; flowers greenish-yellow, sessile or nearly so, in dense cylindric spikes 
25 to 75 сш. long and arranged in short axillary panicles shorter than the leaves; 
calyx 2 mm. long, campanulate, nearly truncate, with 5 short teeth; petals 5, three 
times longer the calyx, lanceolate, fleshy; stamens free, slightly exserted; filaments 
attached to the outer basal edge of an annular disc; anthers dorsifixed, broadly oval, 
terminal glands globose; ovary stalked; style filiform, overtopping the stamens, 
stigma cupular; pod stalked, 2-3 dm. long and about 1 сш. broad; seeds 15—90, 
broadly oval, compressed, brown. Benth. in Trans. Linn. Soc, xxx. 300 (1875); Вай. 
in Hook. f. И. Br. Ind. ii. 289 (1876). | 
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