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3. ENTADA, Adans.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 589. 
Flowers spicate, 5-merous, sessile or shortly pedicellate. Calyx 
campanulate, toothed or deltoid-lobate. Petals free or coherent at base, 
oblong-lanceolate or linear, valvate. Stamens 10, usually exserted ; 
anthers elliptical or roundish with a terminal caducous gland; pollen- 
grains indefinite. Ovary subsessile or shortly stipitate, multiovulate ; 
style filiform; stigma terminal, truncate, concave. Legume straight 
or arcuate, sometimes of enormous size, woody, coriaceous or papery ; 
sutures more or less thickened, persisting after the separation of the 
l-seeded articles as a replum. Seeds flattened, exalbuminous; testa 
with a central areole.—Trees or climbing shrubs, unarmed in the African 
species. Leaves bipinnate; number of pinne and of leaflets very vari- 
able. Spikes solitary or fascicled from the upper axils, or panicled at 
the extremities ; hermaphrodite or polygamous. 
Excepting E. scandens, the following species appear to be confined to Africa. Entada 
differs from Elephantorrhiza only in the legume-valyes breaking up into articles. 
Pinne usually 2-jugate. 
Leaflets 2—5jugate falcate elliptical 14-3 in. long. Spikes 
axillary solitary 4-1 ft. Legume very large . Siar tells 
Leaflets 4~18-jugate, linear-oblong, 4-1 in. long. Spikes solitary 
or distichously panicled, 14-24 in. Legume flat arcuate, 4-6 in. : 
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Leaflets 8-15-jugate, linear-oblong, 4-3 in. long. Spikes axillary 
fascicled. Legume 10-15 in. long, 3-44 in. broad. . : 
Pinne 3-a-jugate. (See E. africana.) 
Pinne 5-8jugate. Leaflets 14-20-jugate, 4-1 in. long. Articles 
2-24 times broader than long . . ..... =. =.=. +. 4 4. sudanica. 
Pinne 14-18-jugate. Leaflets 25-50-jugate, 4-4 in. long. Articles 
24—4 times broader than long es Aes are 
1. E. scandens. 
3. £. africana. 
5. E. abyssinica. 
1. E. scandens, Benth. in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 1842, 332. A widely 
spreading shrub with slender longitudinally striate glabrous glauces- 
cent extremities. Leaves glabrous or the rachis faintly pubescent on 
the upper surface, 14-3 in. to the upper pinne, usually produced as a 
simple or branching slender tendril. Pinne 2-jugate; leaflets 2—5- 
Jugate, the upper usually larger and more oblique, falcate obliquely 
elliptic-oblong or varying from ovate to obovate, obtuse and more or 
less distinctly emarginate; petiolules } line or less; upper leaflets 
13-3 in. long, 3-14 in. broad. Stipules narrow-linear or subulate, 
2-3 lines long. Spikes solitary, axillary, straight or curving, with the 
peduncle }-1 ft. long, rachis pubescent with subulate bracts present at 
Howering. Flowers polygamous or unisexual by abortion, yellowish- 
white, 2-3 lines long, subsessile or pedicels very short. Calyx 5- 
toothed. Stamens much exserted. Ovary rudimentary in the staminate 
flowers. Legume woody, very large, often twisted, 2-4 ft.' long, 3-4 
in. broad.—Mimosa scandens, L.; Entada Pursetha, DC. Prod. ii. 425 
(fide Bentham, whose memoir, cited above, see for further synonymy). 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius! Senegambia, Heudelot! (E. scandens, 
8. Heudelotiana, Baill. in Adans. vi. 209); Fernando Po, Mann! 
