ALBIZZIA.J LEaUMINOS^. 319 



A larg-e scandent bush or strong creeper, often enveloping- the tallest 

 trees. Branches and branchlets armed with many slightly recurved 

 dark and shining prickles ; young twigs glabrous or slightly pubescent. 

 Leaf -r achis Qinx. long, pubescent, not prickly beneath ; 'petiole %- 1 in., 

 with a projecting gland above the base; pinncB 8-15 pairs, I5-2 in. 

 long, with glands between the upper ones ; leaflets 40-50 pairs, crowded 

 and overlapping, sessile, narrowly linear, firm, glabrous. Panicles ex- 

 ceeding the leaves ; bracts small, linear ; peduncles 1 in. or more, 1-4!- 

 nate. Heads -5- in. in diam., white or pale-yellow. Pod 4-6 in. long, 

 linear-oblong, acute or acuminate at both ends, shortly stalked, flat, 

 thin, glabrous, sutures somewhat thickened, tieeds 6-10. 



Forests of Dehra Dun, the Siwalik range, Northern Oudh and Bundel- 

 khand. Distbib. C. and E. Himalaya,? ascending to .^,000 ft., C. and 

 S. India to Ceylon, Burma and Malay Islands ; also in Trop, Africa 

 and Natal, Flowers June to August, 



Vae. arrophula, Bak. in F. B. I. ii, 293 ; Train in Journ. As. 80c. Beng. 

 I. c. 250, 510. — Leaf-rachis glabrous and usually prickly beneath ; 

 petiolar glands large, interpinnular glands 2-3 ; leaflets membranous. 

 Peduncles 4-6-nate.— Merwara (Duthie). Distkib. E. Himalaya, 

 Andaman Islands. 



73. ALBIZZIA, Durazz. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii, 298. 



Trees, rarely climbing shrubs. Leaves bipinnate. Flowers (m 

 the Indian species) in globose heads, sessile or pedicelled, usually 

 5-merous, and all hermaphrodite. Calyx campanulate or funnel- 

 shaped, distinctly toothed. Corolla funnel-shaped, petals firmly 

 united below the middle. Stamens indefinite, l-adelphoas at the 

 base; filaments several times the length of corolla; anthers minute, 

 not gland-crested. Ovary sessile or shortly stalked ; style filiform ; 

 stigma minute, capitate. J?od large, thin, flat, strap-shaped, 

 straight, indehiscent or subindehiscent, continuous within, the 

 sutures not thickened. — Species about 50, distributed throughout 

 the tropics of the Old World. 



Leaflets 20-45 pairs, narrowly falcate, main 

 nerve very close to upper edge ; stipules 

 large . . . . .LA. stipulata. 



Leaflets 6-20 pairs, broadly oblong ; stipules 

 small. 

 Flowers stalked, pod straw-coloured . 2. A. Lehhelc. 



Flowers sessile, pod brown or reddish- 

 brown. 

 Midrib of leaflets nearer the upper 

 edge . . . . . . 8. A. odoratissima. 



Midrib of leaflets nearer lower edge . 4. A. procera. 



