1897.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 245 



II, 285. Mimosa natans Roxb. Cor. PI. t. 119 ; Horfc. Beng. 40 ; Fl. 

 Ind. 553. Desmanthus natans Willd. Sp. PI. IV, 1044 ; DC. Prodr. II, 

 444; Wall. Cat. 5295; W. & A. Prodr. 270. D. lacustris DC. Prodr. 

 II, 444. D. stolonifer DC. Prodr. II, 444. 



Penang ; Bagian Jumal, Curtis! Pkov. Wellesley ; Butterworth, 

 King ! 



62. Xylia Benth. 



Tall unarmed tree. Leaves bipinnate. Flowers in round heads, 

 mostly perfect. Calyx tubular, 5-tootbed at the tip. Petals 5, valvate, 

 slightly united at the base, little longer than the calyx. Stamens 10, 

 free, exserted ; anthers gland-crested in an early stage. Ovary sessile, 

 many-ovuled ; style filiform, stigma minute terminal. Pod large, woody, 

 oblong-falcate, finally dehiscing, flat, septate between the oblong com- 

 pressed seeds. — A single species. 



Xylia dolabriformis Benth. in Hook. Journ. Bot. IV, 417. A 

 tree 80-100 feet high, unarmed. Leaves 2-pinuate ; pinnae two, terminal 

 on a rachis or petiole 1-2 in. long ; leaflets 2-4 pairs, diminishing 

 downward and with below the last pair on the outside a small unop- 

 posed leaflet ; rachis of pinnae 8—4 in. long with a gland on the upper 

 side between the bases of each pair of leaflets ; terminal leaflets 3-6 

 in. long, 1*25-2 5 in. wide, lowest pair 125-15 in. long; all oblong 

 with acute apex and rounded base, subcoriaceous, glabrous on both 

 surfaces; petiolule "1 in. long. Inflorescence of very dense globose heads 

 *5-75 in. in diam. ; peduncles puberulous 3 in. long, slender, thickening 

 in fruit, crowded on short puberulous branchlets developed with the 

 young leaves. Calyx tubular '2 in. long; teeth 5, valvate. Corolla 

 cream-coloured, "25 in. long, petals slightly cuneate at base, valvate, 

 lanceolate. Stamens 10, filaments free, exserted, *5 in. long, young 

 anthers very minutely gland-crested. Ovary sessile, many-ovuled. 

 Pods large woody, oblong-falcate, flat, ultimately dehiscent, 4-6 in. long, 

 1-2 "5 in. wide, # 35 in. thick, septate between the seeds. Seeds 6-10, 

 broadly ovate, much compressed, '65 in. long, *5 in. wide, "1 in. thick ; 

 testa brown, shining, smooth. Bedd. Fl. Sylvat. t. 186; Miq. Flor. Ind. 

 Bat. I, 42 ; Bale, in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 286. Mimosa xylocarpa Roxb. 

 Cor. PI. t. 100; Hort. Beng. 40; Fl. Ind. II, 543. Inga xylocarpa DC. 

 Prodr. II, 439; Wall. Cat. 5277 ; W. & A. Prodr. 269. I. lignosa Grah. 

 in Wall. Cat. 5278. I. dolabriformis Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5279. 



Singapore ; Wallick 5279. Distrib. India, Indo-China, Philippines. 



63. Leuc^ena Benth. 



Unarmed erect trees. Leaves bipinnate. Flowers sessile, in dense 

 globose heads, 5-merous, usually perfect. GW^cylindrical-campanulate 



