Albizzia, | LEGUMINOSH. 425 
glabrous ; pods linear-oblong, acute at both ends, flat, with thick- 
ened sutures, pale-brown, glabrous, 4-6 in. long. 
Has.—Not unfrequent in = gare forests of the Pegu Yomah; also as 
hills.—Fl. Fr. C.S.—SS.=SiS., 
10. A. cesia, WA.; Be nd. For. Fl. 189.—A_ large secede 
shrub, the branches and branchlets terete, and more or less shortly 
and softly tawny or rusty pubescent, armed with numerous sm 
but sharp recurved pubescent prickles; leaves abruptly bipinnate, 
3-1 ft. long, with 7-15 pairs of pinne, the rachises softly pubescent 
or almost tomentose and often armed with recurved prickles ; 
leaflets in 15-40 pairs, from Shaationi to almost falcate-oblong, 
unequal, sessile, bristly acute or bluntish, with or without a minute 
mucro, 3-6 lin. long, rigidly chartaceous to almost membranous, 
while young on both sides (capedially beneath) appressed pubescent, 
more or less glabrescent_above, rarely also beneath ; flowers small, 
white, sessile, in small globular. heads of the size of a large 
borne. on a tawny tomentose 4-2 in. long peduncle, several together, 
clustered and forming an ample shortly tawny tomentose panicle 
at the end of the ee Pg ; calyx hardly 4 lin. long, slightly 
pubescent ; corolla somewhat pees: than the calyx ; pods oblong, 
often occasionally sinuate-constricted, more or less abruptly con- 
tracted in a short stalk, usually Mou with a point, very flat, with 
the borders ean hte thickened, shortly and minutely pubescent 
and hardly glabrescent ; seeds compressed, blackish. 
Has.—Not unfrequent in = Ly ne ac along the eastern slopes of the 
Pegu Yomah and Martaban.—Fr. C.S.—s : 1—S S. = SiS., Metam. 
ALBIZZIA, Durazz. 
Calyx bell-shaped or tubular, 5- or rarely 4-toothed. Corolla 
5- or rarely 4-lobed, with a cylindrical tube. Stamens indefinite and 
usually very numerous and long, the filaments united in a longer 
or shorter basal tube enclosing eis ovary. Pod linear or oblong, 
straight and flat, or rather thick and curved, either opening into 2 
valves, or only along one suture or quite indehiscent, without pulp 
inside. Seeds orbicular to ovate, more or less compressed, the funi 
long and filiform.—Trees or shrubs, unarmed, with sieupile bipin- 
nate leaves. Flowers small, in a obiiae or oblong g heads or umbels or 
— in cylindrical spikes, “often collected into | panicles. 
x Pinne numerous (10-18) ; leaflets linear, 1-6 sie long, 
in very numerous pairs. 
© Leaflets bluntish, the nerve central or nearly so; 
flower heads small, in terminal panicles : . A. myriophylia. 
O O Leaflets acute or nearly so, aa nerve marginal or 
nearly so. 
Stipules very large, eae ovate, acuminate ; all parts more or 
less shortly ee ges . A. stipulata, 
Stipul Ui adult parts glabrous or nearly 60 . A. elegans, 
