1897.] D. Prain — Some additional Leguminosre. 513 



though the exact locality is not noted ; this specimen Mr. Kurz seems to have over- 

 looked. Dr. Wallich's specimen shows that A. elegans is not at all nearly related, as 

 Kurz suggests, to A. stipulata, but that its true affinity is with A. pedicellata Bak. 



36. Albizzia lebbekoides Benth. Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. iii. 89 ; 

 leaflets 50-60 sessile obtuse very oblique, heads copiously pauicled, 

 calyx sessile minute campanulate, corolla-tube much narrower and 

 leaflets much smaller than in A. odoratissima. Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. 

 i. 23. Acacia lebbekoides DC. Prodr. ii. 467. 



Burma ; very common. Distrib. Siam (Teysmann) ; Java. 



A medium-sized tree, 30-50 feet high. Leaf-rachis glabrous or pubescent, with 

 a gland far above the base and 2 or more between bases of distal pinnae ; pinnae 

 8-12 ; leaflets obliquely oblong, articulated on the rachis, coriaceous shining dark- 

 green above, paler, not glaucous beneath, *35 in. long, *15 in. wide, the midrib parallel 

 with the upper edge and shortly removed from it. Heads small few-flowered very 

 numerous, arranged as in A. odoratissima. Calyx as in A. odoratissima. Corolla very 

 narrowly tubular. Pod firm flexible smooth glossy, 6-8 in. long, 1 in. wide, 8-12- 

 seeded. 



This is certainly, as Mr. Baker points out, very nearly related to A. odoratissima 

 but is quite distinct by reason of its more numerous small leaflets and its narrower 

 corolla. The name is most unfortunate, for the species bears very little resemblance 

 to A. Lebbek. Though quite common in Burma, Mr. Kurz did not collect it there, 

 and the species mentioned under that name on Kurz' authority in F. B. I. ii. 299 is 

 the tree afterwards published as A. elegans Kurz. 



4. Albizzia procera Benth. 



Var. elata Bak. is not separable as a variety. It is distinguished by having 

 smaller leaflets less oblique at the base than in the type. Leaves with leaflets 

 of this shape are common in A. procera but they are not smaller than in typical 

 A. procera. It is true that in Boxburgh's original coloured drawing of " Mimosa 

 elata " the leaflets are shown small, but then Roxburgh has himself written on this 

 drawing: — " Mimosa elata considerably less than natural size." A more serious 

 objection to the recognition of a var. elata, as apart from A. procera, is the fact 

 that leaves with leaflets of both kinds, and consequently that both " varieties," may 

 be collected from different parts of the same tree. 



The chief necessity for pointing out the non-existence of var. elata is the fact 

 that, from omitting to attend to Roxburgh's MSS. note on the drawing, Mr. Kurz 

 and others have taken A. Millettii to be Roxburgh's Mimosa elata. The spurred 

 pulvinus of A. Millettii, however, at once separates it from Roxburgh's plant. 



56. Albizzia Gamblei Prain ; leaflets of distal pinna? 10-14 sub- 

 acute or acute, heads panicled, calyx campanulate, shortly pedicelled, 

 A. Lebbek Gamble, Trees, Shrubs, etc., of Darj'eeling Dist., 33 not of 

 Benth. A. procera C. B. Clarke, Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 18 not of Benth. 



Eastern Himalaya ; Sikkim, Gamble 161 ! 7486 ! 9661 ! JSTaga Hills ; 

 Kohima, G. B. Clarke 41480 ! 



A tree 50 feet high. Leaves 2-pinnate ; pinnae 4-6 with a large gland "25 in. 

 above base of main-rachis and with large projecting glands on each secondary rachis 

 at the bases of the distal pairs of leaflets j leaflets ovate-lanceolate 10-14 on the distal. 



