3897.] D. Prain — Some additional Leguminosae. 473 



1. Pterolobium indicum A. Rich. 



Specimens of this have been collected by Dr. King in Dehra Dun and by Col. 

 Beddome in the Godavery Jungles or the Circars, thus proving a considerably more 

 extensive distribution northward and eastward in India than has been suspected 

 hitherto ; the majority of the specimens previously collected had been obtained in the 

 Nilghiris or the Pulney Hills. 



2. Pterolobium densiflorum Prain, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. lxvi. 2. 

 236 ; racemes with thick rachis and very close set pedicels not exceeding 

 the calyx, in fastigiate panicles. P. microphyllum Kurz, Journ. As. 

 Soc. Beng. xlii. 2. 71 not of Miq. P. indicum var. microphyllum Bah. 

 in. Flor. Brit. Ind. ii. 259 at least in part. 



Penang; Govt. Hill, 2500 feet, Curtis 3093! Malacca; Maingay 

 535! Tenasserim; Heifer (fide Baker). 



A large climber, very strongly armed, somewhat resembling P. indicum. Leaves 

 4-8 in. long, pinnae 4-8 pairs, leaflets 8-10 pairs, subcoriaceous, glabrous, "6 in. long, 

 *25 in. wide. Pedicels *25 in. long, racemes 150-200-fld. Pod 2 in. long, with 

 an obtuse or obliquely acute wing 1'25-1*5 in. long, '5-7 in. wide. 



Maingay n. 535 which is P. microphyllum Kurz, and is in part P. indicum VAR. 

 microphrjllum, Bak., is represented in Herb., Calcutta by a specimen of which the leaf 

 has only 7 pairs of pinna?. Curtis n. 3093 from Penang is the same plant ; its leaves 

 have 4-8 pairs of pinna?; its leaflets are as described above. Obviously then it cannot 

 be P. microphyllum Miq., which has linear leaflets 40-44 in number upon 14-16 pairs 

 of pinna?. The Tenasserim plant mentioned in the F. B. I. is not at Calcutta ; all 

 our Burmese and Andamans specimens belong to the next species. 



3. Pterolobtum macropterdm Kurz, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xlii. 2. 

 71 ; racemes with thin rachis and lax pedicels much exceeding the calyx, 

 in spreading panicles. P. indicum var. macropterum Bak. in Flor. Brit. 

 Ind. ii. 259. 



Burma ; common. Andamans ; very common. 



A large climber ; very weakly prickly, otherwise like P. indicum. Leaves 6-9 in. 

 long, pinna? 7-8 pairs, leaflets 7-10 pairs, papery, *45 in. long, "25 in. wide. Pedicels 

 '4-5 in. long, racemes 20-30-fld. Pod 2'5-2"75 in. long, with an obtuse wing 2 in. 

 long, - 7-"8 in. wide. 



The leaflets of this are* rather larger and firmer than those of P. indicum but 

 are neither so large nor so firm as those of P. densiflorum (P. microphyllum Kurz, not 

 Miq.). The plant is much less formidably prickly than either of these ; from the 

 first it differs most markedly in pod, from the second most markedly in inflorescence. 

 Mr. Kurz describes the flowers as white. 



103. CASSIA Linn. 



1. Cassia Fistula Linn. 



It should be noted that in Herb. Calcutta there is a gathering of Cassia Fistula, 

 the well-known Amaltds or " Indian Laburnum," from Chittagong, which is reported 

 by one of our native collectors as having had pink flowers. It would be interesting if 

 any of the members of the Society were able to confirm this report. The. statement 

 is not impossible since at least one other species of this section has both pink and 



