PITHECOLOBIUM ANAMALLAYANUM. (Nat. order. Leguminosse.) 



-C or Gen. Char, see letter-press to PL clxxxviii. 



PITHECOLOBIUM AnAMALLAYANUM. (Bedd.) A large spreading tree, branches panicles and petioles fuseo-pubes- 

 ceut, young branches angled, leaves 4-9 inches long with 4-12 pair of pinuse which are 3 to 4 inches in length, a large raised deeply 

 concare gland is present on the petiole near its base on the upper side, and one smaller one in the centre of several of the interspaces 

 between the insertion of the pairs of pinnae (these latter generally occupy alternate interspaces), leaflets 10-22 pair subcoriaceous linear- 

 oblong very oblique at the base and apex, glabrous above except on the margin, costa beneath furnished with longish hairs otherwise 

 glabrous, panicles subcorynibiform terminal and several together in the upper axils, capitula many flowered, calyx and corol aureo- 

 pubescent on the outside, the latter 3-4 times as long as the former, ovary on a long stipe pubescent. 



This very beautiful tree wilh its large spreading head is very conspicuous in the moist woods on the higher ranges oj the Anamallays 

 (5000-8000/fiei,) and other hills to the smith of them, but I never observed it on the Nilgiris or anywhere north of the Palghat gap ; except in its 

 much more numerous pinna, it is closely allied to P. subcoriaceum ( Thw.), and I luas inclined to refer it to that species, b ut Dr. Thwaites {to whom 

 I have forwarded specimens) thinks ii very distinct. 



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