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XLV. LEGUMINOSjE 



[Pitlwcolobhtm 



Sikkim, Assam, Cachar, Chittagong. Hills of Upper and Lower Burma, 3-6,000 ft. 

 Yery common on the Andamans. Fl. March-April. Malay Peninsula. 



11. P. montanum, Benth. in Trans. Linn. Soo. xxx. 580. 



An evergreen tree ; 

 branchlets brown- 

 pubescent, sharply 

 angular. Pinnae 6- 

 10, leaflets 6-12 

 pair, very oblique, 

 trapeziform, all near- 

 ly of the same size, 

 i-1 in. long, pubes- 

 cent beneath ; 

 glands orbicular or 

 linear at the base of 

 each paii - of pinna?, 

 except the lowest. 

 PI. heads white, in 

 terminal and axillary 

 panicles ; pedicels as 

 long as calyx. . Pod 

 glabrous, spirally 

 twisted, 4-5 in. long, 

 seed-bearing lobes 

 thick, distinct. 



Upper Assam, Khasi 

 hills. Hills east of 

 Toungoo at 2,000 ft. 

 (D.B., February, 1880), 

 Mooleyit, 4,500 ft. 

 ( Beddome) , M e r g u i 

 (Griffith, 1843). Fl. 

 February - March. 

 China. 



12. P. subcori- 

 aceum, Thwaites. 

 — Syn. P. anamal- 

 layanum, Bedd. PI. 

 Sylv. t. 189. 



A large tree with 

 spreading branches ; 

 branchlets clothe d 

 with fine brown 

 pubescence. Pinnee 

 4-12 pair, leaflets 

 10-12 pair, rigidly 

 coriaceous, oblique, 

 |-|- in. long, glossy 

 above, densely pube- 

 scent beneath . 

 Several (1-3) glands 



on the petiole below the lowest pair of pinnae and one gland between each 



pair of pinnse. PL heads many-fid., forming a terminal leafy panicle, fl. 



nearly sessile, i- in. long to extremity of stamens ; calyx one-third the 



length of corolla. Pod 3-4 in. long, coriaceous, twisted. 



Anamalai hills (5-8,000 ft.), Travancore Ghats (very abundant) above 4,500 ft. Fl. 



C. S. Ceylon. The Ceylon specimens have a smaller number of pinnse (3-5) and, the 



leaflets are mostly glabrous beneath. 



Fig. 120. — Pithecolobium montanum, Benth. 



