Piptadenia.] l. legumikos^. (J. G. Baker.) 289 



121. PXPTADSNZA, Benth. 



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Erect treeS; unarmed or prickly. Leaves bipinnate. Flotcers small, in 

 dense spikes, hermaphrodite, pentamerous. Calyx campanulate, shortly 5- 

 toothed. Petals 5, valvate, equal, lanceolate, cohering at the "base. Stamem 

 10, free, as long as the corolla ; anthers tipped with a deciduous gland. Ovary 

 stalked, many-ovuled ; style filiform, stigma terminal. Pod long, thin, strap- 

 shaped, flat. Seeds brown, compressed. — Distrib. Species 30, all the rest but 

 two from Africa Tropical American. 



1. P. oudhensis, Brand, For. Flor. 168 : JBentL in Tram. Linn. Soc. 

 XXX. 366. 



OijDh, in forests unc 



A middle-sized tree, 

 '^*^^°ce. Pinnce 4, long-stalked, each of a siogle pair of nearly sessile obtuse 

 obovate coriaceous leaflets 2 in. long. Panicles axillary, much shorter than the 

 jeaves; spikes dense, 1-1^ in. by f in. Calyx minute ; teeth obscure. Petals ^ in., 

 lanceolate, greenish-yellow. Stamens just exserted. Pod 9-12 in. by | in., with a 

 long stalk, nearly straight. Seeds 15-20. 



122. PARK! A, K Br. 



, Tall, unarmed trees. Leaves bipinnate with yery numerous leaflets. Flowers 

 jn dense long-peduncled heads, each subtended by a coriaceous persistent ligu- 

 Jate bract with a spoon-shaped tip. Calyx tubular, shortly 5-cleft. Corolla 

 J^bidar, cleft half-way Aovm, the segments subvalvate. Stamens 10, 



filiform filaments 



Stamens 10, exserted. 



. n '^ ^^^ iiaiTow, gianaiess, tne pouen conenng lu irregiuar mitsjsea. \jn(/f/ 



^i^ed, many-ovuled ; style filiform, stioina minute capitate. Pod large, flat, 



- . ^— , — .«,v.^^«c, ^jLio-iAj M-cxxiovA^^.—^^K.^^.^ Jpecies 8, cosmopolitan 



^ the tropics, mostly American. 



551. 



landulosa, W. ^ A. Prodr. 279 ; glands of petiole 2, leal 

 150-200 to a piima. Mimosa pedunculata, Roxb. FL Ind, 



Malay peninsula, Eoxburgh. Elsewhere cultivated. 

 1t) ^^^^ of leaf downy, 1 ft. or more long; pinn« 40-60, 3-4 in. long; leaflets 

 C^^ 1 • ^^S^^' ^ ^^- % A i"- Peduncle tinder a foot long in the specimens seen. 

 inf '^'^ F ^^- ' ^^^e glabrous: teeth pilose. Immature pod downy, narrowed gradually 

 ^°to a long stalk. 



/v?^^ Iinear-ligulate 100 or more to a pinna. P. Brunonis, Grah. tn Wall. 

 ^. ft^ftQ -n , . , ,- . -^ ^.^^ ^^^^^ j^^^^ .^^ 328. Mimosa biglobosa, 



Itoj'h r ; r .' ^^S^ooosa, jbmti 

 """^^b. Fl, j^a. ii. 551, 710^ Jacq. 



Peninsui^.— Distrib. Malay isles. 



Pubol^ ^^®ct tree, 40-60 feet high. ii?ff/-rachis a foot or more long, glabrous or 

 mpdv ^ pinnae 20 or more, 3-4 in. long; leaflets 100-120, i'i in. by ^ m., with 

 Wtl l^^ ?*®^ ^^ins than the costa perceptible. Peduncle 1-1^ ft. ; flowers in tur- 

 ?orfj -J^<5s2,3in. long. Calyx \ in.; tube cylindrical, glabrous; lobes pilose. 



^- t)y 1-1^ in., narrowed into a 3-4 in. stalk. 



IjJ; i?- Jeiophylla, Kurz in Jaum. Asiat. Soc. Beny. xlii. 2, 73 ; leaflets 

 ^-^gulate 50-60 to a pinna, pinn» 20 or more. 



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