418 LEGUMINOSE. [ Parkia. 
in bud (?), Stamens 10, exserted; anthers blunt. Ovary stalked or 
sessile, many-ovuled ; style slender, with a minute terminal stigma. 
Pods elongate or a cone: 2-valved, almost indehiscent 
or dehiscent, coriaceo Seeds enveloped in fleshy or dry pulp. 
Albumen none. ater paceesti trees, with abruptly bipinnate eave, 
the leaflets usually very numerous. Flowers small, each furnished ~ 
with a narrow spatalate | bract, sessile, in dense globose or pyriform 
e Remese pendulous heads. 
Receptacle irregular ; calyx-lobes Scompnagl _— 20 or more ; 
Ieaticte only $ in. ce — glabro . P. leiophylia, 
Receptacle eee calyx-lo obowate emesis pinnse about 8; 
leaflets an inch long, opesaiorg eath . PL. insignis. 
Teiophylla, Kz.—A ne (80—120 + 50—80 +6—9), leaf- 
ess in H.S., the young shoots pubescent ; leaves abruptly bipin- 
nate, 1-2 ft. "long, with about 20 or more almost opposite pinne, 
the rachises all tawny and shortly pubescent ; leaflets about 30-40, 
sessile, opposite, linear-oblong and a little falcate, obliquely auricled 
at the base, $ in. long by about 2 lin. broad, obliquely acute, thin 
long stalk and forming a dense club-shaped head on 1-14 ft. long 
glabrous peduncles forming shorter or longer racemes at the end of 
the branches ; calyx nearly 4 lin. long, the tube glabrous, me lobes 
rotundate and ensely tawny tomentose outside; pods 1-1} ft. 
long, linear, narrowed into a 3-3? ft. long stalk. final at the 
apex, Tras and somewhat varnished, black, torose at the numer- 
caster ops of ment in the tropical and moister upper mixed forests es the 
the Pegu Yomah.—Fl. H.S. (?) ; Fr. Feb.-March.—s. : L—SS. 
sarees —Sap-wood white, soft. 
2. P. insignis, Kz.—Myouk-tanyet—A tree (80—100 + 40— 
tachises ew or a abe tomentose ; leaflets in 20 to 25 pairs, almost 
opposite, a little faleate, oblong, sessile, with an unequal slightly 
auricled base, rounded at apex, | in. long ey 4 broad, entire, coria- 
ceous, the nerves excepted glabrous above, beneath pubescent, 
ere, with the nerves arcuately anastomizing ; flowers small, 
: , sessile, and densely crowded on the club-shaped globose 
sceptacle narrowed into an inch long stalk, —- a elub- 
ape d head on the 1 ft. long peduncles which arise 
y end of the branches ; calyx about 4 lin. amet the tube 
