506 D. Prain — Some additional Leguminosse. [No. 2, 



122. PARKIA R. Br. 

 26. Parkia speciosa Hassle. Flora xxv. 2, Beibl. 55 ; gland of petiole 

 solitary, leaflets linear-ligulate, 50-70 to a pinna, obtuse at the tip. 

 Hassle. Cat. Hort. Bog. 289 ; PL Jav. Bar. 414 ; Miq. Flor. hid. Bat. i. 

 53. P. macrocarpa Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 284. Acacia graveolens 

 Jack, Mai. Misc. ii. 7. 78. 



Penang ; cult., Curtis! Perak; Thaiping, Scortechini ! Larut, 

 Kunstler ! Distrib. Sumatra; Java, cult. (Hasskarl!) 



A tree 80-100 feet high. Leaf-rachis 8-10 in. long, pubescent; pinnae sub- 

 alternate, 10-16 pairs, leaflets 50-70, "25 in. long, *1 in. wide, the secondary veins 

 as well as the midrib distinct beneath. Peduncle 16-20 -in., flowers in clavate heads 

 2 in. long, *75 in. in diam. Calyx '25 in. long ; tube cylindric glabrous ; lobes pilose. 

 Pod 18-20 in. long, 2-2*5 in. wide, narrowed into a stalk 2-5 in. long. 

 A very distinct species ; the Pete or Pethek of the Malays. * 



125. MIMOSA Linn.* 

 1. Mimosa pudica Linn. 



In this species, the stamens are always 4 in number, i.e. equal to and not, as 

 the F. B. I. implies, twice the number of the petals. 



126. ACROCARPUS W. & A. 



1. ACROCARPUS FRAXIN1FOLIUS Wight. 



Add to localities of F. B. I. : — Chittagong ; Lister! Pegu ; Kurz ! 

 127. ACACIA Willd. 



2. Acacia planifrons W. Sf A. 



To this Mr. Baker has reduced A. Roxburghii W. & A. Wight and Arnott based 

 their species on Roxburgh's figure of the tree he took to be A. eburnea, which cer- 

 tainly is not that species. Unless Dr. Roxburgh made a mistake in his drawing, a 

 thing that is highly improbable, the F. B. I. reduction is clearly impossible, for A. 

 planifrons has a terete pod and A. Roxburghii has a flat one. There are, as a 

 matter of fact, two species that have been frequently reported from Southern India 

 to the Calcutta Herbarium under the name A. planifrons; these are certainly exceed- 

 ingly similar, still they can be separated by their leaves alone. The first, which 

 has terete pods, has leaflets exactly like those of the types of A. planifrons W. & A. 

 The second, which has leaflets exactly like those of Roxburgh's figure of " Mimosa 

 eburnea" has never yet been reported in fruit ; till its pods are available, the difficulty 

 as regards these two forms cannot be satisfactorily settled. 



66. Acacia Kingii Prain; pinnae short, crowded, 18-20, leaflets 

 22-28, heads axillary; pedicels with a whorl of bractlets. 



Shan Hills; King's Collector! 



* Mimosa niamensis Roxb. is given in the Index Kewensis as an altogether 

 doubtful synonym. By a lapsus calami the species is said to be African ; it was 

 from America, Roxburgh states, that the plant was received (Hort. Beng. 41) and 

 the plant cultivated under this name in Hort. Calcutta has always been a form, hardly 

 a variety, of Desmanthus brachyl now* (Mimosa brachyloba), which was also received 

 by Roxburgh from that continent. 



