Parkinsonia.] LEGUMINOSH. 403 
by 14 in. broad, flat, shortly rusty pubescent 
Has.—Tropical forests of the Martaban hills east of Tounghoo, at 2,000 to 
3,000 ft. elevation.—SS.—Metam. 
pods elongate-oblong-lanceolate, long-stalked, nearly 4 a ft. long 
nt. 
Remarxs.—Wood coarse-fibrous, brown, perishable. 
PARKINSONIA, L. 
scarcely declinate ; anthers conform. Ovary narrowed at the base, 
with 8-15 ovules; style almost filiform with a minute terminal 
stigma. Pod narrow-linear, usually slightly constricted between 
the distant seeds, indehiscent, 1-8-seeded. Seeds albuminous.— 
Trees or shrubs, usually armed with sharp thorns, the leaves sessile 
or nearly so, 2-pinnate, the rachis flat and much dilated, the leaflets 
minute or quite suppressed. Flowers rather small, in 
racemes. Bracts very deciduous. 
1. P. aculeata, L.; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. 91, t. 13, f. 2; Brand. 
For. Fl. 158.—An evergreen tree (25—30+8—154+3—4), the 
branches armed with paired, straight, sharp stipulary thorns, all parts 
~quite glabrous ; leaves sessile, 2-pinnate, and appearing as if con- 
sisting of 2 elongate flattened slightly repand rachises of 1-2 ft. in 
length, which are more or less sparingly and interruptly beset with 
minute.almost sessile oblong-lanceolate acute leaflets or the latter 
often enough quite aborted; flowers rather small, yellow, on capillary 
long pedicels up to an inch long, fo ing glabrous racemes in the 
