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XLIII. LEGUMINOSjE. 
[Pithecolobium. 
vulvate, often partly confluent, H line or less long. Staminal-tube slender, 
connate with the tube of the corolla at the base ; the tube with the free portion 
of the filaments about 2in. long. Anthers broad as long. Ovary 1, glabrous. 
Style capillary, attaining a length of 4in. Stigma very minute. Pod not 
seen. — F. v. M. l.c. 
Hub.: Daintree River, E. Fitzalan (F. v. M., l.c ) 
95. ARCHIDENDRON, F. v. M. 
(A chief of trees.) 
Flowers bisexual. Calyx truncate, tubulous-campanulate. Corolla tubulou s 
in the lower part, the upper part irregularly 4 to 5-cleft. Stamens very numerous, 
united for a good part of their length and adnate to the lower part of the corolla. 
Filaments long-exserted. Anthers cordate-ovate, 2-celled, exappendiculate, cells 
2-valved. Ovary wholly or partly free. Carpels 5. Style elongate, setaceous. 
Pod carnoso-coriaceous, hard, very tardily opening in 2 valves, turgid, twisted 
or curled, not pulpy inside, many-seeded. Seeds transverse, long-ovate- 
exalbuminous. Funicle straight, short; no aril. Cotyledons plano-convex ; radicle 
short, cylindrical. — Trees, with large bipinnate leaves, and usually red-coloured 
showy pods. — F. v. M. Fragm. v. 59. 
Mueller says, Journ. of Bot. x. (1872) 10, that Archidendron can only be generically separated 
from Albizzia (in which he includes Pithecolobium) by its plurality of carpels. 
Leaves of 1 pair of pinnas 1. A. Vaillantii. 
Leaves of 2 pairs of pinnae 2. A. Lucyi. 
1. A. Vaillantii (after La Vaillant), F. v. M. Fragm. v. GO, and Ic. Dec. 
xiii. 7. A tree of about 50ft. high, with a smooth bark. Leaves paripinnate. 
Pinnse 1 pair ; leaflets 8 to 4 pairs, almost ovate or orbicular-ovate, very shortly 
petiolulate, chartaceous, 3 to 7in. long, 2 to 4|in. broad, nerves and veins 
prominent. Umbels or heads fasciculate often at old nodes at the ends of 
branchlets, of 5 to 7 flowers, with now and then a single flower below the 
umbel. Bracts deltoid, persistent, 1 to lj line long. Bracteoles rather smaller. 
Pedicels thick, about 1 line long. Calyx 4 to 6 lines long, bursting irregu- 
larly. Corolla about lin. long, 4 to 5-lobed ; lobes semilanceolate, valvate, tube 
thick. Stamens very numerous, liin. or more long. Anthers minute, dorsifixed, 
cordato-rotund ; connective brown, cells introrsus, parallel, distinct, plainly 2- 
valved. Disk annular, entire. Ovary free. Style 1 to 2in. long, setaceous, 
pubescent below. Stigma very minute, truncate, concave-terminal. Ovary 
oblique, subulate-cylindrical, silky-tomentose, many-ovulate. Pod irregularly 
twisted or folded, 2 to 4£in. long, 6 to 10 lines broad, scarcely stipitate, when 
fresh a pleasing red outside, yellow (often dark), contracted between the seeds, 
thick and the margins somewhat crenulate. Seeds smooth, black, nearly iin. 
long. — Pithecolobium Vaillantii, F. v. M. Fragm. v. 9. 
Hab.: Scrubs of the Queensland tropics. 
A poisonous principle is contained in the bark. — Dr. T. L. Bancroft. 
Wood of a red colour, close-grained, strong and durable — Bailey’s Cat. Ql. I Voods No. 150. 
2. A. I.ucyi (after M. de Lucy), F. v. M. Fragm. vi. 201 ; Ic. Dec. xiii. G. 
A small tree with 2-jugate large leaves; petiole about 4in. long. Pinnte 2 or 3- 
jugate; leaflets 3 to Gin. long, oblique or orbicular-ovate, on very short petiolules. 
Glands between the petiolules impressed, lamina shining on both surfaces ; 
reticulate veinlets copious. Inflorescence in racemose panicles, about 8in. long, 
the short branches bearing usually 2 pedicellate flowers at their extremities. 
Pedicels 1 line long. Calyx 4 lines long, deltoidly toothed. Corolla about lin. 
long; tube elongate, widening upwards; lobes 5, rarely G, semilanceolate- 
deltoid, valvate, thickened at the apex. Staminal-tube adnate to the base of the 
