258 Q. King — Maietiahfor a Flora of Ike Malayan Peninsula. [No. 1, 
broad ; Uuear-oblong, blunt at both ends, flat, mncb compreBsed, with 
slitrlatly tliickooed sutureflj smooth, glossy, pale s tin w -col on red except 
opposite til© seeds, there reticuIaLed, pale- brown. Seeds trans- 
versely oval, much oompi-essed, '6 in, long, 3 in. wide, '1 in. tliick, 
teata smootb, pale-brown. Bedd. F\. Sylvat. t. 53 ; Bafc, iu Flor. Biifc. 
Ind. II, 298. Albizzia latifoUa Boiv. Encyc. II, 33 ; Miq. Flor. Ind, 
Bafc. I, 22. Acacia Lebbek WiOd. Sp. PL IV, 1066 ; DC. Prodr. 11, 466. 
Acacia spectosa WilM. Sp. PI. IV, 1066 ; DG. Piodr. II, 467 ; W, & A. 
Prodi'. 275. Acacia Sir ism Ham. iu Wall. Cut, 5265. Mimosa speciosa 
Jaeq. Ic. t. 108. If. Sirissa Roxb. Hort. Beng. 40; Flor. Ind. II, 544*. 
The SiKia. 
Planted in some of the provincea : — ANDAimNS ; Kurz ! Penan G ; 
GnHis 296 1 DiJii KtiJ. Planted thrQugboufc the tropica ; appears to be 
wild in tlio drier regions of Asia and Africa. 
5, AiiSiKziA fEDiCELLATA Bak. ex Benth. in Trans. Linn, Boc, 
XXX, 563, A tail eiect unarmed tree sometimes over lOU feet high, 
young shoots dark- coloured, faintly rusfcy-pabcrulons, bark dark- 
coloured ; stem 3 feet in diam., heart-wood black. Leaves evenly 2-pin- 
natej racb is 5-8 in. long, with a largo sessile gland *6 in. above base, 
stipules pei-sisting as two firm recurved ibickly coriaceons booklets ; 
• pinnffi 6-}2-jngate, 4-6 in. long, the main and secondary i-achisea alike 
puberulous ; leaflets 12-16-jugato, oblong-obtnse, sessile, with slightly 
obliquely rounded base, rigidly subcoriaceons, *5-*75 in long, '3~4 in. 
wide, dark-gi-een above, pale but hardly glancescent beneath, rcHcu- 
late-veined, quite glabrous on both anrfacea. Fhwei^s in many-fld. 
umbels '75-1 in. across, y olio wish- wHjte wilh green stamens ; pedun- 
cles slender finely pubescent, 1-1-25 in. lo\£^, panicled in fasciclee of 2-8 
on nodea towards the apices of nnmerons a.villaiy main-racbisea, the 
nodes Romeliraes evolved as brancbleta 1-2 in. long so as to form com- 
pound utnfiels ; main-rachis pnbernlous, the pednucular portion beneath 
tlie flowers 3 in. long towards ends of bi-anches, to 12-15 in. long in 
tho axils lower down ; pedicels rusty-pubescent veiy slender, ■ 25-'3 
in. long. Calyx '15 in, long, teetli short deltokl, densely pubescent 
externally. Corolla '3 in. long, teeth ovate-acuto externally, densely 
pubescent as ia the tnbe. Filaments connate at base in a white tube 
shorter than corolla, free poi-tions of filaments over 1 in. long, bright- 
green. Pod indehnscent, 12-18 in. long, 2-25— 2*5 in. wide^ very thin 
and brittle, pale yellowish-biown, very faintly reticulated opposite tbe 
seeds, sinnate-repand along the mi thickened sutui^s. Seeds 6—9, trans- 
versely ovate, "25 in. long, "2 in. wide, much compressed, testa smooth 
dark- brown. Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. 1 1, 299. 
Peiuk; Goping, Ulii Buboug, etc. Kumtler 4474! 7988! 10436! 
