Pithecolobium. ] LEGUMINOS®. 429 
thickened on the margins, veined; seeds 4-6, elliptically orbicular, 
rather compressed, } in. long, brownish. 
Has.—Adjoining Siamese province of Radbooree. —Fr. HS. 
Remarxs.—Yields the best timber of 
7. A. lucida, Bth.; Brand. For. Fl. 174.—Than-that-pen.—A 
tree Ah eee re or remaining stunted on impermeable 
strata, leafless at the begin of H.S., all parts quite glabrous; bark 
very thin, greyish, covered with little corky pustules ; ‘leaves 
abruptly bipinnate with only a single pair of pinne, glabrous ; leaflets 
usually in 2 pairs, oval to elliptically oblong and oblong-lanceo- 
late, on a 1-2 lin. long petiolule, bluntish acuminate, 2-4 in. long, 
chartaceous ; flowers small, yellowish, sessile or nearly so, in small 
heads, borne on 4-1 in. long glabrous peduncles, tes and 
forming terminal glabrous’ panicles ; calyx nearly a line long, 
minutely toothed, the 2 lin. long corolla outside tay pubes- 
cent ; pods 3-6 in. long, linear-oblong, bluntish at both ends, very 
flat, with the sutures somewhat raised, pale-brown, smooth and 
somewhat glossy. 
Hazs.—Common in the dry forests of Ava = Prome; rather rare in the 
lower mixed forests of Pars. —F. Apr.; Fr. C.S.—s x1. 8S. —SiS. Lat. CaS. 
Remarxs.—Sap-wood white, coarsely fibrous ; ree brown, compact. 
PITHECOLOBIUM. 
Characters and habit of bc tnet but the pods Mtemsats:f or 
screw-like twisted or curved. Seeds without an arillus. 
X Flowers pedicelled, in ee umbels or racemes, 
iggreee 1 in. broad and lo ong 3 branchlets terete; leaves with a 
ingle pair of pinne . P. lobatum. 
i cochlote sharply cornered ; pinne 2- 4; leaflets ix in 48 pairs .- angulatum. 
Flowers sessile, in sm = shrub, rast 
single pair . . : om glomeriflorum. 
1. Pithecolobium ‘ieee Bth ae -pen.—An evergreen 
tree (40—50 + 15—25 + 3—4), all parts glabrous; bark 2-3 lin. 
long, a little rough, minutely fissured, grey ; ; cut dryish, red-brown ; 
leaves abruptly bipinnate, with a single pair of pinne on an in. 
long petiole, gues leaflets in 2-3 pairs, ovate to broad-lanceo- 
late, on a 1-2 lin. long petiolule, long and biantih acuminate, 2-5 
in. long, chartaceous, glabrous and glossy; flowers small, white. 
scien or nearly so, forming little heads on ‘short but slender 
