1897.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 249 



Corolla *05 in. long, teeth short obtuse. Pod thick cylindric glabrous, 

 2-3 in. long, "5 in. thick, dull-brown marked with fine horizontal striae ; 

 mesocarp pulpy enclosing the biseriate seeds. Seeds 12-18, ovate, *3 in. 

 long, -2 in. wide> *15 in. thick, smooth, dull-brown with faint lateral 

 areola. DC. Prodr. II, 461; Wall. Cat. 5264 A-F; Bedd. Flor. 

 Sylvat. t. 52; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 7; Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind.. II, 

 292. Mimosa Farnesiana Linn. Sp. PL 521 ; Roxb. Hort. Beng. 40 ; 

 Flor. Ind. II, 557. Vachellia Farnesiana W. & A. Prodr. 272 ; Wight, 

 Ic. t. 300. Acacia indica Desv. Journ. Bot. I, 69 ; DC. Prodr. II, 462. 

 Farnesia odora Gaspar. Desc. Nuov. Gen. Legum. (1838) with plate. 



Planted in some of the provinces : — Andamans ; Kurz ! Penang ; 

 Porter (Wall. Cat. 5264F) ! Pahang ; Katapong, Ridley 1246 ! Distrib. 

 Cosmopolitan (perhaps usually planted) in the tropics. 



2. Acacia pseudo-Intsia Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 12. A large 

 scandent shrub 12-20 feet high, the branches and branchlets armed 

 with many small sharp recurved glossy dark-coloured prickles ; young 

 branches blackish, puberulous or glabrescent. Leaves 2-pinnate, rachis 

 8 in. long, puberulous or glabrescent, strongly armed with recurved 

 prickles beneath, petiolar portion 2*5 in. long with a large projecting 

 gland close to base on its upper surface; pinnae 8-12-pairs, 2'5-3'5 in. 

 long, the upper 2-4 pairs with glands between their bases; leaflets 

 30-35 pairs, sessile, linear-oblong, obtuse, *4 in. long, 15 in. wide, rigidly 

 subcoriaceous, glabrous above, adpressed-puberulous or glabrous be- 

 neath. Flowers in rounded heads, '4 in. in diam., yellow, peduncles 

 *5-75 in. long, slender, puberulous, naked, in clusters of 2-4, rarely 

 solitary along a panicle extending 10-12 in. beyond the leaves ; bracts 

 large, ovate-acute or acuminate, *2— *25 in. long. Calyx puberulous, '07 

 in. long. Corolla 1 in. long. Pod not seen. 



Var. typica ; bracts puberulous, pedicels *5 in. long, leaflets ad- 

 pressed-puberulous beneath. 



Singapore ; Changhi, Eullett 835 ! Ridley 3631 ! Bukit Timah, 

 Ridley 6177 ! Distrib. Sumatra, Java. 



Var. ambigua Prain ; bracts glabrous, pedicels '75 in. long, leaflets 

 quite glabrous beneath. 



Andamans ; very common, King's Collectors ! 



In externals the Singapore plant much resembles A. caesia W. & A., the Anda- 

 mans one at the same time resembling A. Intsia Willd. except in having the 

 leaflets crowded. Closer examination shows, however, that the natural alliance of 

 the species is rather with the group of forms aggregated under the name A. pennata ; 

 the large bracts, in particular, make all further comparison with the group to which 

 A. Intsia belongs an impossiblity. 



Its nearest ally is a species from Northern Indo-China described by Kurz 

 under the name A. pruinescens from which this differs in having broader leaflets, in 

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