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LEGUMINOS2E. 
ALBIZZIA Durazz. 
Albizzia scandens sp. nov. 
Frutex scandens, subglabra, usque ad 10 ni alta; foliis bipinnatis, 
circiter 20 cm longis 4- vel 5-jugatis; foliolis oblongis vel elliptico- 
oblongis, 1 ad 2 cm longis, acutis vel apiculatis, leviter inequilateralibus ; 
paniculis circiter 20 cm longis, parce pubescentibus ; floribus sessilibus, 
capitulatis, extus parce pubescentibus; staminibus circiter 20, filamentis 
liberis. 
A scandent shrub about 10 m high, subglabrous. Branches dark- 
colored when dry, terete, lenticellate. Leaves alternate, about 20 cm 
long, evenly 4- or 5- jugate, the common rachis slightly pubescent, 12 to 
15 cm long, with a single large gland on the upper surface near the base, 
the stipules, if any, caducous, the base of the petiole subtended by a stout, 
somewhat recurved, thickened puvinus about 4 mm long ; leaflets 8 to 12 
pairs, crowded, oblong or elliptic-oblong, 1 to 2 cm long, 5 to 7 mm 
wide, chartaceous, somewhat inequilateral, the base broad, acute, the apex 
acute or apiculate, the lower surface paler than the upper, slightly pubes- 
cent. Panicles axillary and terminal, 20 cm long or less, slightly pubes- 
cent. Flowers white, sessile, in small capitate heads at the ends of the 
ultimate branchlets. Calyx about 1.5 mm long, slightly cinereous-pubes- 
cent outside, obscurely 5-toothed. Corolla slightly cinereous-pubescent 
outside, 4.5 mm long, the tube very slender below, widened above, the 
lobes oblong-ovate, acute, about 1.5 mm long, 1.2 mm wide. Stamens 20 
or more; filaments about 12 mm long, free; anthers 0.2 mm long. 
Palawan, Iwahig, Bur. Sci. 829 Foxworthy, May, 1906. 
A species growing near tlie sea, climbing over Xylocarpus, allied to Albizzia 
myriophylla Roxb., of the Malay Peninsula, but with much fewer jugate leaves, 
less numerous and differently shaped leaflets, and free filaments. 
BAU HIN IA Linn. 
Bauhinia monandra Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 42- (1873) 73; Forest 
FI. Brit. Burma 1 (1877) 395. 
Bauhinia richardiana Wall, in Voigt. Hort. Suburb. Calcutt. (1845) 255, non 
DC. fide Plain. 
PJumera rnaculata Rich, ex Teysm. & Binn. Cat. Hort. Bog. (1866) 268, non 
Bauhinia rnaculata Tenore. 
Bauhinia krugii LTrban in Ber. Deutsch. Bot. Ges. 3 (1885) 83. 
Bauhinia kappleri Sagot in Ann. Sci. Nat. VI 1 3 (1882) 317; Urban Symb. 
Antill. 1 (1899) 83; Perk. Frag. FI. Philip. (1904) 13; Merr. in Govt. Lab. 
Publ. (Philip.) 29 (1905) 17. 
Luzon, Manila, Merrill s. n. November, 1903: Province of Pampanga, Arayat, 
Warburg, in Herb. Berol., Merrill 3931f, October, 1904, Bolster 51, May, 1905: 
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