THE GENUS ALBIZZIA. 9 
durch Russland’ quoted, vol. iii. p. sce t. 40 (1774),— tiie, also, 
adopting the same name as given by Forskal. Desfontaines, * Histoire des 
Arbres et Arbrisseaux,' ii. 236, has still merely Mimosa Julibrissin as late 
as 1809. Miquel (Annal. Mus. Bot. Lu gdun. Bat. iii. 55) adds to the 
synonyms Mimosa arborea, Thunb. Flora Japon. 329 (1784). Fournier, 
) ap n 
plus qu à Mr. Bentham, de découvrir où Duel aurait fait site publi- 
But the literature of the J ulibrissin concerns us on this occasion but 
very little, a: the desirability of fixing the date of the genus, and 
showing that it was Durazzini, and not Boivin, who named the species. 
It would also appear that this Florentine writer was the first, or at all 
events among the first, who adopted the present oe of Julibrissin. 
In larger libraries than my own this may be further ced. 
I have now, however r, an apt opportunity to isch v how the Austra- 
lian species ies the genus Ælbizzia arrange themselves, and to offer on them 
a few notes 
`- Albizzia ATS (Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. iii. e6; Fournier 
Annal. des Scienc. Nat. 1861, 17, 5). This is restricted to iir 
West Australia, but the ru se geographic limits of the species are as yet 
unknown. Mr. Aug. Oldfield found it, besides iu the localities already 
recorded, also at S. W. Bay, where it grew among sandstone rocks. It is 
our best plant for temporary shelter plantations in the most arid soil or 
exposed localities, and it produces seeds at a very early age most pa 
ously. The latter will endure immersion in boiling water, which pro 
cess indeed accelerates their germination. This bush is of remarkably 
rapid growth. The roots exhale a garlic odour. 
A. Sutherlandi (F. Mueller, Fragm hytogr. Austr. vi. 23) only as 
yet known from the Flinders river. This species Mime AP ee how easy 
a trausit exists between the il Albizzia and Acacia ; and my original 
view, that the rena merely constitutes a section of the latter, may still 
finally be ado 
A. basaltica gine Flor. Austr. ii. 422). This species has been sent 
Mr. 
lately from the Barcoo . Schneider, kas from Springsure by Dr. 
Wuth. e € (€ occasionally i a length of $ inch. The pod is 
sometimes € inch w more or less oval or orbicular, 
brown, smooth, 4-5!" ienė, phin flat, eae shining, and bordered 
by a narrow acute margin. There à no distinct lateral areol, nor is the 
funicle poe into any distinet arill 
k iana (F. M. in Bentb. Flor. Austr. ii. 422). Restricted to 
eastern ioni Australia. 
i procera (Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. iii. 88). Gloucester 
Is eon 
A. canescens (Benth. Flor. eats ii. 423). Now also known from 
Nerkool Creek, where it was - ud by Mr. E. Bowman, who observes 
that the foliage is almost deciduo 
A, pruinosa (Pithecolobium. Pidie, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. 
Bot. iii. 211). This species is traced by Mr. J. Dallachy as far north 
as Rockingham Bay and Dunk Island. Its pe relation to the Java 
Albizzia Junghuhniana, well figured by Miquel, has to be further as- 
certained. This tree grows to a height of 60 feet or more. The flowers 
