1897.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 261 



sometimes 3-, rarely 1-jugate, (when leaflets 3-jttsate on the distal 

 pinna?, leaves occasionally with a second pair of pinnae witli short 

 eglandular rachis under *5 in. long, bearing 1 pair of small leaflets) ; 

 leaflets ovate to elliptic-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, apex rather abrupt- 

 ly acuminate, base obliquely cuneate, glossy dark-green above, dull paler 

 beneath, glabrous on both surfaces, thinly chartaceous, decreasing down- 

 wards, the distal pairs 4 in. long, 1*5 in. wide, the lowest 1*5 in. long, 

 •7 in. wide. Flowers in small heads *6-"7 in. across, yellowish ; pedun- 

 cles slender, faintly puberulous, '75-1 in. long, solitary or in fascicles of 

 2-3 in corymbs on nodes in the upper fourth, or subumbellate at the 

 tips, of numerous branchlets l'5-6 in. long, themselves in corymbose 

 panicles 8-10 in. long and nearly as wide, at the ends of leafy branches ; 

 pedicels 'OS-l i". long. Calyx '07 in. long, campanulate, faintly toothed, 

 externally puberulous. Corolla '2 in. long, teeth lanceolate, uniformly 

 sparsely silky externally. Filaments connate at base in a white tube 

 slightly shorter than that of corolla, free portion of filaments *35 in. 

 long, pale-yellow. Pod at length dehiscent, 6-10 in. long, 1-1*25 in. 

 wide, thin, flexible, pale-brown, dull, reticulated opposite the seeds, 

 smooth glossy elsewhere. Seeds 6-8, orbicular, '3 in. in diam, much 

 compressed, testa smooth, pale-brown. Bentli. PI. Jungh. 268; Miq. 

 Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 18 ; Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. IT, 299. Mimosa lucida 

 Roxb. Hort. Beng. 40 ; Flor. Ind. II, 544. Inga lucida Wall. Cat. 5267 

 mostly. 



Singapore : fide Baker. Distrib. Eastern Himalaya and Indo- 

 China ; also Java (fide Miquel). 



Like A. odoratissima this species is included on the authority of Mr. Baker, who 

 records it from the Malayan Peninsula. Dr. Miquel reports it also from Java, but 

 no British or Dutch botanist has ever sent a Malayan specimen to Calcutta. 



70. Pithecolobium Mart. 



Erect trees. Leaves abruptly 2-pinnate. Flowers in globose heads, 

 rarely in small loose spikes or subumbellate corymbs, usually herma- 

 phrodite and pentamerous. Calyx campanulate or funnel-shaped, shortly 

 toothed. Corolla funnel-shaped, the petals united below from one-half 

 to two-thirds their length. Stamens monadelphous, much exserted ; 

 anthers without glands. Ovary sessile or stipitate, many-ovuled ; 

 style filiform, stigma minute capitate. Pod strap-shaped, circinate or 

 rarely falcate or nearly straight, usually dehiscent throughout the 

 lower suture and much twisted in a late stage, sutures not or slightly 

 thickened. 



Species about 100 ; cosmopolitan in the Tropics, about 80% Ameri- 

 can, only 1-2 African. 



