430 LEGUMINOSE. [ Pithecolobium. 
long, glabrous, coriaceous, the seed-bearing lobes almost orbicular, 
about an inch long and broad. 
Has.—Rather frequent in the tropical forests and along choungs in the 
moister upper mixed forests from the Pegu Yomah and Martaban down to 
Tenasserim. Also frequently cultivated by the Burmese.—Fl. Apr.-May; Fr. 
March-Apr.—s.— SS.—=Metam. Sz 
ReMARKS.—Wood coarsely fibrous, but close-grained, rather heavy, the sap- 
wood small, white, soon attacked by xylophages ; heart-wood brown, exudes a 
blackish resin. 
2. Pithecolobium angulatum, Bth.—An evergreen tree (25— 
30+8—15+14-2), the branchlets sharply 4-5-cornered, the young 
shoots tawny pubescent; leaves abruptly bipinnate, 1-13 ft. long, 
with usually 4-3 rarely 2 pinne, the rachises 4-3-angled, while 
young tawny pubescent ; leaflets of the lower pmne in 2-3, those 
of the upper ones in 4-8, pairs, on very short, thick, pubescent 
petiolules, more or less rhomboid-oblong to rhomboid-ovate, acu- 
14 lin. long, pubescent outside ; pods screw-lke, circinnate-twisted, 
inear-oblong, sinuate-contracted between the seeds, coriaceous, 
while young velvety, soon glabrescent. 
Has.—Frequent in the drier hill and pine forests of the Martaban hills 
down to Upper Tenasserim, at 4,000 to 6,000 ft. elevation.—Fl. March-Apr.; 
Fr. Apr.-May—1l.—SS. = Metam. 
8. P. glomerifiorum, Kz.—A shrub, 2-5 ft. high, the young 
shoots shortly puberulous, the branchlets slightly angular or terete; 
leaves abruptly bipinnate, with a single pair of pinne on a 1-1} 
- jn. long petiole, the rachises hardly angular, and especially while 
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