276 LEGUMINOS# (Harv.) [Entada- 
leaflets semicircular, concrete nearly to the summit; peduncles short, 
solitary or fascicled, one-flowered ; calyx campanulate, shortly 5-toothed, 
persistent, its lobes deltoid, erect ; petals inserted with the stamens on a 
perigynous disc in the base of the calyx, obovate, purple-veined ; sta- 
mens 10, all perfect, 5 shorter; ovary glandular ; legume stipitate, 
broadly and shortly falcate, few-seeded, either quite smooth or covered 
with small, wartlike glands. 
Has. Between Verleptpram and Natvoet, Gariep, in vallies, under 600f., Drege! 
Namaqualand, Wyley / (Herb. Hk., Sd., D.) 
A rigid, laxly-branched shrub, with ash-colour bark, and bare, virgate, spreading 
branches. Leaves scattered or tufted on very short, lateral twigs. Petioles slender, 
4 inch long ; leaves 4 inch long, $ inch wide, pale green. Flowers generally on the 
lateral twigs, 2-3 together. Peduncles }-} inch long. Calyx 5 lines long; petals 
thrice as pone elegantly veiny. The legume varies remarkably in its surface, as 
above stated. - 
Sub-Order III. Mimosez. 
LXXVI. ENTADA, Linn. 
Flowers sessile or shortly pedicellate. Calyx campanulate, shortly 
5-toothed. Petals 5, free or nearly so. Stamens 10; anthers gland-bear- . 
ing. Legume linear, plano-compressed, margined with thickened, persis- 
tent sutures ; the valves transversely jointed, separating into 1-seeded, 
indehiscent, frustules. Benth. in Hook. Journ. Bot. 4, p. 332. 
Shrubs, mostly scandent, armed or unarmed. Leaves bipinnate, the terminal pair 
of pinne often changed into cirrhi. Stipules small, setaceous. Spikes of flowers 
slender, solitary or in pairs, or in a terminal panicle. Entada is the Malabar name 
of E£. scandens. 
ANALYSIS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN SPECIES. 
Leaflets 2-5-jugate, 1-2 inches long, 1 inch-wide __..., -.. (1) seandens. 
Leaflets 8-15-jugate, 4-6 lines long, 1-2 lines wide: 
Prickly, thinly tomentose ; flowers sessile sts - (2) Natalensis. 
Unarmed, quite glabrous ; fl. pedicellate ... Ri --- (3) Wahlbergii. 
1. E. scandens (Benth. ! 1. c.) ; unarmed ; leaves cirrhiferous; pinne 
1-2-jugate ; leaflets 2-5-jugate (large), ovate, elliptical, or oblong-ob- 
ovate, obtuse or acuminate or emarginate, often oblique, shining above, 
glabrous or downy beneath ; spikes elongate, solitary orin pairs. Mimosa 
candens, Linn. EH. Purseetha and E. monostachya, DC. Prod. 2, p. 425, 
Has. South Africa, Wahlberg! (Herb. Holm.) 
_ Stem climbing to the top of lofty trees, very long, ropelike. Petiole ending in a 
simple or branched tendril ; pinnz few, 1-2 inches apart ; leaflets 14-2 inches long, 
1 inch wide. Spikes 2-8 inches long. Legume 2-3 feet long, 3-4 inches broad. This 
is the common sword-bean of the East and West Indies, and tropical Pacific. 
2, E.? Natalensis (Benth.! 1. c.); twigs and petioles thinly tomen- 
tose, here and there armed with hooked prickles; pinne in 5-7 pair; _ 
leaflets 9-15 pair, obliquely-oblong, obtuse, glabrous or downy, the peti- ~ 
ole here and there gland-bearing ; spikes axillary, 2-3 together ina leafy | 
panicle. Benth. Mimosa spicata, E. Mey.! Comm. p. 164. 
Var. 8. aculeata; stem and petioles copious: : i : leaf- 
lets broader and more gations, — a 
Has. River banks about Natal, Drege! Krauss! 199. garde i t 
Capetown from Natal seeds, Commis. Gent. J.D. Watt? (Het Hk. DD) ee 
A slender, bramble-like bush, either climbing or forming an entangled mass some 
