Piptadenia 



LEGUMINOS.-K 



127 



cm. br., leathery, mar-in-; slightly enlarged, somewhat constricted between 

 the seeds ; surface with leprous markings. 



We have not seen any specimen from Jamaica, but follow Bentham in 

 considering Macfadyen's Acacia tricliopliylloides as a synonym. 



Fig. 39. Piptadenia peregrina Benth. 



A. siu^k- lent with inflorescence x : C, Flower x ">. 



-.ulnnd. D, Ditto cut lengthwise. 



i'.. Several leaflets enlarged. E, Pod . 



[ADENANTHERA L. 



Trees. Leaflets alternate, 12-18 in A. j""'""'""- Flowers 

 minute, crowded in long slender racemes, hermaphrodite r 

 polygamous. Calyx carnpanulate, shortly toothed. Stamens 

 scarcely exserted. Pod strap-shaped, swollen at the ends, 

 2-valved, the A 7 alves much twisted after they separate. 



