1897.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 255 



pubescent, bark thinnish, dark-brown, much lenticelled. Leaves evenly 

 2-pinnate ; racbis 5-9 in. long, densely tawny-pubescent, with a medium 

 sessile gland very near the base and with 2-4 small glands between 

 the bases of as many pairs of distal pinnas, stipules subpersistent, 

 subulate, puberulous, 15 in. long, deciduous ; pulvinus hardening into 

 a recurved almost woody hook; pinnae 12-20-jugate, 1-15 in. long, 

 their rachises sparsely pubescent; leaflets 35-50 pairs, crowded^ 

 linear, sessile, slightly falcate, apex subacute, base slightly oblique,' 

 rigidly chartaceous, '2r-2h in. long, -07 in. wide, dark-green and glabrous 

 above, margin ciliolate or glabrous, paler beneath and glabrous or 

 sometimes sparsely adpressed-pubescent ; midrib central. Mowers in 

 small 10-20-fld. heads '5 in. across, pale-yellow with greenish -yellow 

 stamens, or white ; peduncles slender puberulous, '4-'5 in. long, solitary 

 or 2-6 together on nodes in the upper half of pubescent corymbose 

 branchlets 1-1-5 in. long, with pubescent ovate-acute bracts 2 in. lon^ 

 usually accompanied by 2 subulate stipules like those of the leaves, the 

 branchlets disposed in terminal leafy panicles 4-8 in. long, 2-4 in 

 wide; pedicels 0. Calyx campanulate, teeth small, ovate-acute tube 

 externally densely pubescent, -04 in. long. Corolla infundibuliform 

 yellowish or white, -15 in. long, teeth ovate-lanceolate one-third the 

 tube and like it uniformly externally softly puberulous. Filaments 

 few, 12-20, united below in a white tube half as long as that of corolla 

 free portion greenish or white, «4 in. long. Pod dehiscent, 4-5 in long' 

 •8-1-2 in. wide, thin, flexible, bright-brown, smooth and shining • op' 

 posite the seeds darker and distinctly reticulated. Seeds 6-8 obovate 

 apex obtuse, base cuneate, '25 in. long, -2 in wide, much compressed^ 

 testa dull-brown, smooth, distinctly areolate. Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind' 

 II, 300. Acacia myriophylla Grab, in Wall. Cat. 5242. ' A.foliolosa 

 Grab, in Wall. Cat. 5241. Mimosa microphylla Roxb. Fl. Ind. II 549 " 



Kedah; Langkawi, Curtis 2135 ! 2801! Penangj Curtis 718 ! 1702 

 Kunstler 1444 ! Perak ; Scortechini 28 ! 128 ! 



alinJif a™ n ° t , beCOm ] e a tree ' When a cli -ber it has not the assistance, as in 

 ehmbing^cac^ of pr.ckles; it developes however hard recurved hooks, that help 

 to serve as hold-fasts, from the thickening of the pulvini at the leaf-bases. 



2 Albizzia stipulata Boxy. Envoi" XIX Siecle II, 33. An un- 

 armed evergreen tree, often 100-120 feet high, young shoots finely grey- 

 downy, bark dark-grey rugose, stem 3-4 feet thick; heart-wood lark- 

 brown. Leaves evenly 2-pinnate, rachis 6-18 in. long, pubescent, with 

 a large sessxle gland 1 m above the base and with 2-6 small be ween 

 the bases of as many distal pairs of pinna,; pinna, 6-20-jugate, the 

 secondary rachises tawny-pubescent, 2"5-4 in. long- leaflets 20-45 

 jugate, dimidiately falcate-lanceolate, sessile, apex acut'e slightly poin t e d 



