1897.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 253 



Kewensis has therefore replaced the ' Rain-Tree ' in Pithecolobium ; this, however, is 

 a step which in turn similarly mars the generic limits of that group since the pods 

 of Pithecolobium must not be septate. The writer places the species with more con- 

 fidence in Enterolobium owing to its possessing the septate pods characteristic of 

 that genus. The pulpy, in place of spongy at length indurated mesocarp, and the 

 shortly pedicelled in place of sessile florets, cannot, in view of the variability of 

 these characters within adjacent genera, be considered more than comparatively 

 trivial deviations from the hitherto recognised characters of Enterolobium. The 

 writer is unable, both on academic and on practical grounds, to agree with the pro- 

 posal, made by some botanists, to amalgamate Calliandra, Pithecolobium, Enterolo- 

 bium and Albizzia. 



68. Calliandra Benth. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves bipinnate, with small or large leaflets. 

 Flowers in globose heads, polygamous, 5-merous. Calyx campanulate, 

 toothed. Corolla funnel-shaped, deeply 5-cleft. Stamens indefinite, 

 monadelphous at the base, filaments filiform much exserted ; anthers 

 minute, not gland-crested. Ovary stalked, many-ovuled ; style filiform, 

 stigma minute capitate. Pod strap-shaped, slightly falcate, flat, rigidly 

 coriaceous, the valves dehiscing with elasticity, bordered by much- 

 thickened sutures, continuous within, narrowed gradually to a short 

 stalk. Species 80, mostly tropical American. 



Calliandra umbrosa Benth. in G-en. PI. I, 597. A tree 20-25 feet 

 high, with slender glabrous branches and sometimes with small suberect 

 stipular spines. Leaves 2-pinnate, petiole 125 in. long, glabrous ; pinnae 

 2, terminal, each with rachis 1 '25-1*5 in. long, with a pair of large 

 sessile, oblique, oblong, rigidly subcoriaceous end-leaflets, acute at apex, 

 cuneate at base, 6 in. long, 2 in. wide and with an odd similar but 

 much smaller leaflet 1*5-2 in. long, *5-*75 in. wide, on the outer side 

 below ; leaflets all glabrous on both sides, rather distinctly nerved 

 beneath and each with a gland on rachis at base. Flowers sessile in 

 small dense globose heads *4 in. across, with minute bracts, on short 

 ascending slender peduncles *4-5 in. long, usually several together 

 from old nodes on the branches ; elongating in fruit to 1*5-2 in. Calyx 

 campanulate, teeth valvate. Corolla '12 in. long, yellow, inodorous. 

 Pod 6-9 in. long, *75-l in. wide, smooth, finely veined, the valves with 

 elevated rounded thickened edges. Seeds 6-9, ovate, *5 in. long, 35 in. 

 wide, long diameter transverse, very much compressed ; testa smooth 

 shining thin crustaceous brown. Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 302. Inga 

 umbrosa Wall. PI. As. Bar. t. 124 ; Cat. 5273. Albizzia umbrosa Benth. 

 in Hook. Lond. Journ. Ill, 86. 



Penang ; fide Baker in Flora of British India. 



There are no Malayan specimens at Calcutta ; Mr. Baker, however, allcides to 

 the existence of Penaug examples. 



