224 S. Kurz — Contributions towards a [No. 4, 



+ + Valves of pod thick and woody, falcate. 



Xylia. Pods woody, tardily dehiscing. Flowers in globose heads. Trees with 

 bipinnate leaves. 



Subtrib. 2. PARKIE2E. Calyx imbricate in bud. Stamens monadelphous. 



Pabkia. Stamens 10, in neuters reduced to long filaments. Flowers in large 

 long-peduncled heads, the lower ones neuter, the upper ones fertile. Trees with 

 bipinnate leaves. 



Trib. 2. ACACIE2E. Stamens indefinite, free or connate. 



Subtrib. 3. ACACIFAH VFRAH. Stamens free. 



Acacia. Pods various, dehiscent or not. Flowers in heads or dense spikes. Trees 

 or shrubs, sometimes climbing, with bipinnate leaves or the leaves reduced to phyllodia, 

 armed or unarmed. 



Subtrib. 4. INGF2E. Stamens connate. Flowers in heads or dense spikes. 



* Seeds without an arillus, but on longer or shorter funicles. 

 Albizzia. Pods straight. Trees with bipinnate leaves. 



Pithecolobitjm. Pods more or less circinnate or cochleate. Trees or shrubs, 

 rarely climbing, with bipinnate leaves. 



Calliandba. Pods more or less falcate, with much thickened sutures. Trees or 

 shrubs, with bipinnate leaves. 



* * Seeds conspicuously arillate. 



Inga. Pods variously circinnate or cochleate. Trees or shrubs with simply 

 pinnate leaves. 



Arillaria, Kurz. 



1. A. eobtjsta, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1873, 71. (SopJiora 

 robusta, Eoxb. Hort. Bengh. 31. ; Wight Icon. t. 245). 



Hab. Not unfrequent in the tropical forests of the southern slopes 

 of the Pegu Yomah (above and about Bangoon) and in Upper Tenasserirn. — 

 Fl. Apr. June. 



Sophora, L. 

 1. S. tomentosa, L. sp. pi. 533 ; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. II. 316 ; Miq. FL 

 Ind. I. 124 ; Bth. in Mart. Fl. Bras. Papil. 314, t. 124. (8. accidental™, 

 L. 1. c. ; Bot. Mag. t. 3390). 



Hab. Not unfrequent in the beach-forests of the Andamans ; also 

 Pegu (Brandis). 



Lespedeza, Mich. 

 Conspectus of Species. 



* Flowers in axillary almost sessile clusters. 



Appressed silvery silk-hairy ; leaflets linear-cuneate, L. sericea. 



* * Flowers in axillary and terminal racemes often collected into terminal panicles. 



x All parts densely and softly pubescent ; bracts deciduous. 

 Softly tomentose ; racemes robust and sessile ; calyx-teeth almost filiform and 

 flexuose, L. pinetorum . 



x x Branchlets and underside of leaves appressedly greyish puberulous. 



Racemes glandular-pubescent ; bracts persistent, L. decora. 



Eacemes tawny pubescent, not glandular ; bracts deciduous, L. parvifiora. 



