260 G, King — Materiah for a ¥lora of tits Malayan Peninsula. [No. I, 
An erect Bmarmed tree 60-80 fee*- high, yonng" sboots rather pale, mncli 
lenticelled, smlinigosc, glabroas, bark pale-gray outside reddisli within, 
stem l'5-2 feet in diam, ; lieart-wood broiivn, Letiveii evenly 2-piTiTiate ; 
raoUis 12-18 in. long, glabrous, with a large gland '25 in aboTe the base ; 
pinna) 2-6- jugate, 5-6 in. long, secondary racbisea glabrous, with se&fiile 
ovate gland below the last pair of leaflets ; leaflets 6-12 jngate, 
obliquely ovate to ovate-oblong with petiolnles '05 in. Inng, blunt or 
subacute, the base obliquely cuneato on upper rounded on lower margin; 
thinly coriaceons, 1-1'5 in. long, (in young treea someiimea 2 in. long) 
and "G-'S in. wide, davlc-green glabi-ons above, paler beneath and when 
young densely silvery later spavRcly adpressed-pubescent, Flmpers in 
nnmerons small 20-25-fld. heads, *75 in. across, yellowish-white witti 
pale-yellow stamens ; peduncles slender pubernlous or glabrous, *5 iu. 
long, in fascicles of 3-5, leas often solitary on nodes in the upper halF of 
nnmerons j'acemose branehleta 3-5 in. long at the ends of leafy branches; 
pedicels 0. Oalyx '1 in. long, teeth triangular difitinct, glabrous exteriT- 
ally as is tbe tube. Corolla "25 in, long, teeth lanceolate half as long as 
tube, densely uniformly pubescent extemally. i*\7amen#s connate at base 
Id a yellow tube as long as tbat of corolla, free portion of fxlaraents '35 
in. long, greenish -yellow. Pod at length dehiscent. 4-8 in. loiig, •7-*9 
in. wide, thin, flexible, bright reddish-brown, glossy, sutures straight, 
slightly thickened; valves not reticulated. Seeds 6-12, broadly ovate, 
'35 in. long, '25 in. wide, much compressed, testa smooih pale-browr*. 
B<dd. Flor. Sylvat. 96; Miq. Flov. Ind, Bat. I, 21 ; Bak. in Flor. Brit. 
Ind. U, 299. Acacia procera Willd. Sp. PI. IV, 10G3 ; DC. Prodr. II, 
46G; W. & A. Prodr. 275. Acacia elala Grab, in Wall. Cat. 5233;^ 
Voigt, Hort. Suburb. Calcutt. 261 (not Mimosa elata Roxb. ). Mimosa 
procera Roxb. Cor. PL t. 121 ; Hort, Beng* 93 ; Flor. Ind. II, 548. 
Andamans; Coco Group, common, Prain ! Distrib. Indot-Cbina, 
Cbiiia; Malay Archipelago. 
It. 18 strange that thonf^h thia speci&s extendB froin Nepal to CcBtrat Cbina on 
the north and from Java to the PhilippineB on tHu Boiitb, it slionlti never have been 
eoltectml in tbe Malay . P<3ninaul». More eitraordiriary still, tbongh quito com mora 
at the uort]:i end of the AnddmaiiB, it aocm^ to be altogether (ibecmt from tho southern 
islands of that gronp aud fi'om the Nicobars. 
8. Albizzia lucida Bentli, in Hook. Lond. Joum. Bot, UF, 86. - An 
unarmed deciduous tree 50-60 feet high, all parta glabrous, bark thin, 
greyish, pustuiar,8tem 1-1 "5 feet in diaoi. ; heart- wood pale- brown. Leavfs 
evenly 2-pinnate, rachis l*5-2-5 in. long, quite glabrouB, with a se**sile 
Onp-shaped gland '3-8 in. above tbe base and with another near the 
tip; pinnaa usually 1- jugate with f?ecoudary rachis 2-3-5 in. lo-tig, witb 
a gland on upper side *25 in. below the distal pair of leafluta aud often 
witli a second '25 in, below the pennltiuiate paii*, the leaflets usnally 2-. 
