NOTE SUR LE GENRE ALR1ZZIA. 371 



I. — SPECIES AFRICAN/E, 



1° MICROPHYLUE. 



1. Albizzia sericocephala Benth. in Hooker's Lond. Journ. of 

 Bot., III, 91 ; Walp. Rep., V, 597; Acacia sericocephala Fenzl. 

 in PL Kotschyi exsicc . ; Inga sericocephala A. Rich. Tent. FI. 

 Abyss., I, 236. — Kotschyi iter nubicum, n° 294 ; Flora œthio- 

 pica, n°244; Schimp. It. Abyss., sect. 2% n is 818 et 883; 

 Quartin-Dillon Exsicc, n° 35. 



Arbor parum excelsa (Kotsehy); ramis inermibus, griseis, 

 cylindricis, rugosis, ramulis petiolisque cinereo-tomentosis, sti- 

 pulis parvis decicluis. Folia ovali-lanceolata, fere semipedalia, 

 juniora rufo-sericea, petiolis basi glandula una prominente in- 

 structis; pinnis 20-32 -jugis stricte superposilis ; pinnulis multi- 

 jugis, sessilibus, linearibus, obtusis, nervo medio notatis, supra 

 nigro-viridantibus, pubescentibus, subtuspallide tomentosis. Flo- 

 res capitati, sessiles, cum foliis una surgentes, pedunculis axilla- 

 ribus2-3 brevibus, rachidis partem pinnis destitutam subœquan- 

 tibus, in panieula terminali congestis ; calyce tubuloso 5-dentato, 

 sericeo ; corolla infundibuliformi, ad tertiam partem 5-parlita, 

 serieea, ealycem subduplo superante; tubo stamineo corollam 

 aequante. Legumen 5-6-spermum, i'ndehiscens, pedicellatum, gla- 

 bruni, 6-8 poil, longum, 1 poil, latuni, folia subœquans, charta- 

 çeum, basi acutum, apice rotundatum. 



Creseit in Abyssinia prope Debra-Sina, circa A dd'erbati et prope 

 Addheugeurmul, non procul a convalle fluvii Mareb (Quartin- 

 Dillon), prope Dscheladjeranne in convalle fluvii Taccazé,el prope 

 Guendepta, in regno Tigré (Scbimper) ; in regione Sennaar et ad 

 pagum cordofanum Milbes (Kotsehy), menseaprili florens, mensi- 

 bus sept.-dec. fructifera. 



2. Albizzia affinis, n. sp. — Schimp., envoi de 1853, n° 845, 

 et de 1855, n° 1548. 



Frutex ramis fere cylindricis griseo-erubescentibus, maculis 



