﻿558 MR. G. BENTHAM ON THE MIMOSEiE. [Albizzia. 



The peculiar hard infrafoliaceous hooks or prickles, sometimes reduced to conical tubercles, observable 

 in four species {A. pedicellata, A.' Millettii, A. rufa, and A. macrophylla) , appear to be rather more than 

 epidermal, but require further observation on the living tree. 



Sectio 1. LOPHANTHA. 



IPlores in spicis cylindraceis v. elongatis conferti v. dissiti 



Series 1. Platyspermse. Species Amtro-Caledoniccej seminibus uhi nota planissimis 



late orhiculatis. 



1. A, Paivana, Fourn. in Ann. So. Nat. ser. 4, xv. 172. Scandens, glabra. Pinn® 

 l-jugae ; foliola 2-3-juga, longe petiolulata, ovali-oblonga, obtusa, 3-8-pollicaria. Spicee 

 interruptse, 6-10-pollicares. Elores sessiles, glabri. Calyx latus, linea brevior. Corolla 

 3-3J lin. longa. Legumen ignotum. 



Hab. New Caledonia, Vieillard, n. 420. 



I refer this toFournier's species on the authority of Vieillard^s specimens, in which, however, the leaf- 

 lets are fuUy twice as large as those described by Fournier; and the flowers are sessile, not pedicellate. 



2. A. OBOVATA, Benth,, sp. n. Perrugineo-tomentella, foliis glabrescentibus. Pinn^ 

 1-jiigcc ; foliola 2-3-juga, sessilia, oblique obovata v. ovato-oblonga, obtusissima, Isete 

 virentia, 2-3-pollicaria. Spicse elongatse, interrupts. Plores sessiles, ferrugineo- 

 pubcscentes. Corolla calyce vix diiplo longior. Legumen ad 8 poll, longum, fere pol- 

 licem latum. 



Rab. New Caledonia, Vieillard, nn. 418, 2516 ; Beplanche, n. 347 ; Tancher, Mon- 

 trouzievt Balansa. 



Hamuli juriiores petioli et inflorescentia pube v. tomento brevi ferruginef. Foliola prima juventute 

 pariter vestita, mox glabrescentia. Petiolus communis |-l-pollicaris; pinnarum rhaches l-li poll, long^ 

 Glandule parvse. Foliola basi valde inaequilatera, costa cseterum subcentrali pennivenia et tenuiter venu- 



losa* Spicarum rhaches cum pedunculo 6-8 

 Calyx campauulatus, 5-dentatus 



interrupt 



Corolla vix 4 lin. longa, latiuscula. Legumen basi 



reticulatis 





3. A. FULGENs, Benth. in Sooh. Loud. Journ. iii. 85. Subglabra. Pinnae 2-4-jus^ " 

 foliola 3-4.juga, ex ovato oblongo-rhombea, basi angustata, subsessilia, 1-2-pollicaria' 

 Spicse 2-4.pollicares, breviter pedunculatse. Flores sessiles, glabri. Calyx \ liu corolla 

 ad 3 lin. longa, angusta. Legumen subsessile, 5-6-pollicare, 6-7 lin. latum' valvis 

 labris reticulatis.— i^owrw. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, xv. 173. ' 



Acacia fulff ens, Labill. ! Sert. Austr. Caled. 68, t. 67. 

 A. cijclosperma, DC. Prod. ii. 456. 

 AJbizzia rivularis, Fourn. 1. c. 172, ex char. 



Hab. New Caledonia, ZabUlardiere, Vieillard, n. 421, 423 424 



LabiUardiere^s own specimens van^ in the number of pinn., 2, 3, or' 4, as well as in the breadth ..d 



between ] 

 diagnosis 



respects Fonrnier's A. rivulans must be intermediate 

 I can trace no other distinctive character in his elaborate 



^, , ^" ^-"^^^'^ = -''^«^*« cycwsperma was described from a specimen in Herb 



^ entenat had probably from Labillardiere. The seeds are about | in. broad, as in . 

 Caledonian species. 



