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XLV. LEGUMINOS.E 



[Pitlucoloblum 



Sikkim, Assam, Cachar, Cliittagong. Hills of Upper and Lowei Bin ma, 3-6,000 ft. 

 Yeiy common on the Andamans. PL ]\Iaicli-Ai3iil. Malay Peninsula 



11. P. montanum, Benth. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. 



580. 



An evergreen tiee; 

 brancHets brown- 

 pubescent, sharply 

 angular. Pinnae 6- 

 10, leaflets 6-12 

 pair, very oblique, 

 trapeziform, all near- 

 ly of the same size, 

 ^-1 in. long, pubes- 

 cent beneath ; 

 glands orbicular or 

 linear at the base of 

 each pair of pinnse, 

 except the lowest. 

 M. heads white, in 

 terminal and axillary 

 panicles ; pedicels as 

 long as calyx. Pod 

 glabrous, spirally 

 twisted, 4-5 m. lona:, 

 seed-bearing lobes 

 thick, distinct. 



Upper A&sam, Khasi 

 hills Hills east of 

 Toungoo at 2,000 ft. 

 (D B., February, 1880), 

 Mooleyit, 4,'500 ft. 

 ( Beddome), M e r a; n i 

 (Griffith, 1843). ^M. 

 Februaiy ~~ Marcli. 

 V, iima 



12. P. subcori- 

 aceum, Thwaites. 

 — Syn. P. anamal- 

 Jayamim^ Bedd. PI. 

 Sylv. t. 189. 



A large tree with 



spreading branches; 



clothe d 



brown 



Pinnae 



leaiiets 



rigidly 



oblique, 



branchlets 

 with fine 

 pubescence. 

 4-12 pair, 

 10-12 pair 

 coriaceous, 

 I'l i^- loiig, 

 above* densely pube- 

 scent beneath . 

 Several (1-3) glands 

 on the petiole below the lowest pair of pinnae and one gland between each 

 pair of pinn«. PL heads many-fld., forming a terminal leafy panicle, fl. 

 nearly sessile, ^ in. long to extremity of stamens; calyx one-third the 



glossv 



Fia. 120. — Pithecolohimn moniamim, Benth. 



length of corolla. Pod 8-4 in. long, coriaceous, twisted 



Anamalai hills (5-8,000 ft.), Travancore G-hats (very ahmidant) above 4. 

 0, S. Ceylon. The Ceylon specimens have a smaller number of pinnse (S 

 leaflets are mostly glabrous beneath. 



500 ft. Fl. 

 pinnse (3-5) and the 



