;)l(j I). Praia — Some additional Leguminosse. [No. 2, 



The pod is given as \ in. wide in the F. B. I. This is probably a misprint for 1\ 

 in. wide which is about the true size ; Bentham in originally describing the pod 

 states that it is as large as that of P. fasciculatum, which is about 1\ - 1£ in. across. 



6. PlTHECOLOBIUM CONFBKTUM Benth. 



Add to synonyms of F. B. I. : — Albizzia splendens Miq. Flor. Ind. 

 Bat. Suppl. 280. Add : — Distrib. Sumatra (Teysniann 4228 !) 



Mr. Kurz has already pointed out (Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xlv. 2. 129) that the 

 species described by Mr. Bentham as Pithecolobium confertum in 1874, had been 

 described by Dr. Miquel as Albizzia. splendens 14 years before. It is therefore probable 

 that Mr. Bentham never saw Dr. Miquel's plant, the identity of which with P. con- 

 fertum is undoubted. But as Miquel drew up his description from leaf specimens 

 only, it seems neither to be necessary nor just to propose, according to what are said 

 to be the essential rules of bibliography, to rename the species Pithecolobium 

 splendens. 



6/2. Pithecolobium nicobaricdm Brain, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 

 lxvi. 2. 267 ; branchlets glabrous, pinna? 2, leaflets 4, rarely 6, leaves 

 with a gland near the middle of main-rachis only, calyx campanulate, 

 pod not lobed. Albizzia bubalina (Pithecolobium bubalinum) Kurz, 

 Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xlv. 2. 129 not of Benth. P. oppositum Kurz I. c. 

 not of Miq. 



Nicobars ; Nancowry, Jelinek ; Kamorta, Kurz ! 



Leaflets papery rather rigid, ovate -lanceolate, glabrous, acute, distal 3-4 by 

 1'4-1'8 in., proximal 1—2*5 by '5-1*25 in., petiolules distinct *1 in. long. Heads 

 racemose. Calyx '05 in., pubescent, teeth deltoid. Corolla and filaments not seen. 

 Pod dehiscent along upper suture, 5-6 in. long, '75 in. wide, spirally twisted, valves 

 thickly coriaceous, glabrous, dull purplish-red. Seeds 8-10, orbicular-ovate, some- 

 what compressed, '4 in. long, '5 in. wide, '25 in. thick, testa thin crustaceous, dark- 

 purple, smooth, shining • arillus 0. 



The Nicobarese name is " Kawas. " Mr. Kurz does not seem to have seen a 

 specimen of P. bubalinum when he referred this tree to that species, or when he 

 referred to that species P. oppositum Miq. This is at once distinguished from P. 

 bubalinum by its different fruits, and from P. oppositum by its leaf-rachises being 

 glabrous not puberulous and by its pinnae being 1-jiTgate not 2-jugate. 



8. Pithecolobium microcarpum Benth. 



Add to localities of F. B. I. : — Perak, very common. Singapore ; 

 T. Anderson ! Kurz ! Ridley ! Distrib. Sumatra (fide Miquel) ; Borneo. 



P. oppositum Miq. is very near this. Its leaflets are not distinguishable but it 

 differs in having puberulous petiolules and 2-jugate pinnae, so that it is to be hoped 

 that it is truly specifically separable. Should it, however, prove to be identical 

 with P. microcarpum then Miquel's, though the prior name, surely ought not to be 

 used, since that author described leaf-specimens only. 



9. Pithecolobium ellipticum Hassk. Retzia, i. 225. Inga elliptica 

 Bl. Cat. Bmtenz. 88. Albizzia fasciculata Kurz, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 

 xlv, 2. 129, excl. syn. Pithecolobium macrophyllum T. 8f B. 



