300 I. LEGDMniosiE. (J. G. Baker.) [Albizeia^ 



branches of the panicle umbeHate or corymboBe. Calyx ^ in., faintly-toothed. Corolla 

 3-4 times the length of the calyx; teeth lanceolate. Fod 6-8 in. by 1-1^, thin, flexible, 

 pale brown, 6-8-seeded. 



6. A. g'lomeriflora, Kurz in Jowm. Adat. Soe. Senff. xlii. 2, 74 ; leaflets 

 usually 6 rarely 4 middle-sized acute, heads copiously panicled, calyx minute 

 sessile campanulate, Senth. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. 560. 



Mabtaban, Kurz. 



A shrub, 2-5 ft. high, with puberulous branchlets. Pinna unijugate ; leaflets 

 oblong- or subrhomboidal-lanceolate, 1-2 in. long, chartaceous, nearly glafcrons 

 above when mature, glauceseent and downy beneath. Heads the size of a pea, in 

 axiUaty racemes and terminal panicles. Calt/x under ^ in., pubescent. Corolla 

 thrice as long as the calyx, deeply lobed, pubescent, greenish-white. Pod unknown, 

 Bx Kurz loc. cit. 



*• Leqfiets narrow, dimidiate-lanceolate, with the midrib close to the ufper 

 edge. 



7. A. Julibrlssin, JDurasz.; Senth. in Hook. Joum. Sot. 1844, 91; 

 leaflets 20-50, stipules and bracts caducous, heads of flowers not panicled, coioII& 

 three times as long as the calyx. Soiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 639. Acacia Julibiissin 

 and Nemu, WiUd. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 469. Mimosa Kalkoia, Soxh. Sort. Seng. 40; 

 Fl. Ind. ii. 647 ? M. arborea, Thunb. Fl. Jap. 229. 



Throughout the Himalayas from Hazasa to Sikkim, ascending to 6-7000 ft. — Dis- 

 TSiB. Abyssinia, Eastern and Central Asia, China, Japan. 



A middle-sized unarmed tree, Leaf-iacbises finely downy, with a small gland at 

 the base of the petiole, and between the upper pinnae ; pinnae 8-24 ; leaflets mem- 

 branous, sessile, sensitiTe, ^ in. long, cuspidate, straight on the upper side, rounded 

 on the lower, ^in. broad. Heads globosoj on clustered erecto-patent peduncles from the 

 crowded leafless upper nodes. Calyx ^-^ in., funnel-shaped, shortly toothed. Fila- 

 ments rose-red, 1 in. Pod glabrous, membranous, grey or pale brown, 6-6 in. by 

 J-1 in., 8-12-seeded, narrowed to a beak and short stalk, indehiscent. 



Vab. mollis, Benth. ; leaflets broader (^^ in,) more coriaceous, like the peduncles 

 and calyx densely pubescent. Acacia mollis. Wall. PI. As. Bar, ii, 76, t. 177 ; Cat. 

 5233. — Simla to Nipal. 



8. A. stipulata, Soiv. ; Senth. in Sook. Joum. Sot. 1844, 92 ; leaflets 

 40-80, stipules and bracts persistent, heads of flowers panicled, coroUa twice the 

 calyx. Dalz. Sr Gibs. Somb. Fl. 88 ; Sedd. Fl. St/lv. t. 55. Acacia stipulata, 

 DC. Frodr. ii. 469 ; WaU. Cat. 5236 ; W. ^ A. Prodr. 274. A. Smithiana, 



WaU. Cat. 6237. A. marginala, Sam. in Wall. Cat. 5243. Mimosa stipu- 

 lacea, Soxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 549. M. SmiUiiana, Soxb. Sort. Seng. 40 ; Fl. Ind. ii 

 660. Arthrosprion stipulatum, Sasik. Setz. i. 212. 



Teopical HrtnT.AYAs, ascending to 4000 fl. in Ktimaon and Sikkim, to Cbyion and 

 BiEMA. — rDiSTBiB. Malay isles. 



A tall unarmed tree, with finely grey downy branchlets. Leaves with many glands 

 on the rachis ; pinnae 12-40 ; leaflets i in. or less broad, membranous, sensitive, 

 ^-^ in., sessile, glaucous beneath, finely downy, with a slightly recurved acute point. 

 Stipules and bracts large, membranous, downy, cordate, acute. Heads in copious ax- 

 illary simple and compound terminal racemes with densely pubescent erecto-patent 

 branches. Calyx like that of A. Julibrlssin, but smaller. Pod 5-6 in. by f-1 in., 

 pale brown, thin, indehiscent, subsessile, 8-10-seeded. 



*** Leaflets very narrovily strap-shewed with a central midrib. 



9. A. myriophylla, Senth. in Sook. Joum. 1844, 90; leaflets 80-100 



