512 D. Prain — Some additional Leguminosae. [No. 2, 



Khasia Hills ; 3-4000 feet, Mann 383 ! Naoa Hills ; Giesseliere ! 

 Distrib. S. China (Henry 6203). 



A tall tree without prickles. Leaves glabrous with large gland near base of 

 petiole and another between bases of last pair of pinnae ; pinnae 6-12 (rarely 4), 

 leaflets short-stalked rigidly subcoriaceous, main-nerve parallel with and slightly 

 nearer the upper margin, 1-1*5 in. long, glabrous. Heads many-fld., peduncles 1-3 

 in axils of upper leaves, slightly puberulous, 2-25 in. long. Calyx '15 in., faintly 

 puberulous. Corolla yellowish, silky externally, teeth long lanceolate. Stamens pink. 

 Pod strap-shaped, firm, dark-brown, 6 in. long, 1 in. wide, 6-10-seeded, with a stalk 

 •35 in. long. 



Nearest to A. Lebbeh ; the long stalked-pod is, however, alone sufficient to sepa- 

 rate it. 



lc. Albizzia littoralis Teysm. fy Binnend. Nat. Tijds. Ned.-Ind. 

 xxix. 259 ; leaflets 6-8, obtuse ; heads in a terminal corymbose panicle, 

 calyx pedicellate funnel-shaped. Kurz, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xlv. 2. 129 ; 

 Prain, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. lxvi. 2. 257. 



Penang ; Pulo Jungah, Curtis ! Nicobars ; common, Jelineh ! King's 

 Collectors ! Distrib. Malay Archipelago. 



An unarmed tree 30-40 feet high. Leaves with glabrous rachis, with a large 

 sessile gland near its base ; pinnae 4-8, leaflets subsessile submembranous oblique, 

 •75-1 "25 in. long, pale-green glabrous above, glaucescent faintly puberulous beneath. 

 Heads few-ffd., peduncles short slender, the longest 1*5 in., corymbose on branches 

 1-3 in. long which are themselves corymbosely panicled. Calyx '1 in. long, hardly 

 toothed, pubescent. Corolla white, twice the calyx, the teeth ovate lanceolate, 

 uniformly densely silky outside. Stamens pink. Pod strap-shaped, firm, greenish- 

 brown, dull, tapering to both ends, 6-7 in. long, 1 in. wide, 12-16-seeded. 



2. Albizzia pedicellata Baker. 



Add to localities of F. B. I. :— 



Perak ; common, Kunstler 4474 ! 7988 ! 10436 ! Penang ; Curtis 

 1921 ! Singapore ; Ridley 6297 ! 



26. Albizzia elegans Kurz, Pegu Bep. App. B. 47 ; leaflets 40-50, 

 acute ; few-fid. heads not panicled, calyx pedicellate, funnel-shaped. 

 Kurz, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xlv. 2. 299 ; For. Flor. Brit. Burm. i. 427. 

 A. lebbekoides Kurz, ex Bah. in Flor. Brit. Ind. ii. 299 not of Benth. 



Burma ; Pegu ; Bookee ridges and on banks of Swa-choung, Kurz ! 

 no locality, Wallich ! Distrib. Bangka. 



An evergreen tree without prickles, 80-100 feet high. Leaves with puberulous 

 rachis with a large gland far above the base ; pinnae 14-28 ; leaflets sessile, sub- 

 falcate, membranous acute glabrous, *6 in. long, 2 in. wide, main nerve almost 

 median. Heads many-flowered, peduncles puberulous 'h-lS in. long, 2-4 together 

 in axils of upper leaves. Calyx '1 in., rather shorter than the puberulous pedicels, 

 teeth very short. Corolla twice the calyx, externally pubescent. Pod unknown. 



Mr. Kurz adopted the unusual course of describing this species without having 

 seen either flowers or fruit. There was, however, a flowering example of the same 

 plant in the Calcutta Herbarium, collected by Dr. Wallich, perhaps in Burma 



