554 POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. MimOSa. 



plena, but the East Indian plant wants the bractes on the 

 middle of the peduncles. The flowers are either neuter or 

 hermaphrodite, and the latter have always ten stamens. 

 Piukenet's 4th figure of plate 307 is certainly intended 

 for this plan. 



22. M. adenanthera. R. 



Terminal, erect, smooth. Leaveshipmnate; pintKB three 

 pair ; leaflets from twenty to thirty pair with coloured 

 margins. Stipules obliquely cordate, acute. Peduncles 

 axillary, bracted ; spikes ovate, nodding, inferior corollets 

 double, neuter ; the superior ones, decandrous ; anthers 

 crowned with a gland. Legumes sub-falcate, many- 

 seeded. 



Native place uncertain. Flowering time in Bengal the 

 rainy season. It is a pretty slender, somewhat flexuous, 

 sub-erect, shrubby plant. It is nearly allied to Willd- 

 enow's Desman thus punctatus ; if the anthers have a gland 

 on the apex, as in Adenanthera, I think v,'g may conclude 

 they are the same. 



23. M. scandens. R. 



Scandent. Leaves bipinnate, ending in a tendril ; 

 pinntB two pair ; leaflets from three to four pair, oblong, 

 emarginate, glossy. Spikes panicled, lateral ; corollets 

 decandrous. Legume jointed, with an entire margin. 



Mimo Entada. Willd. 4- 1041. 



Acacia scandens. Willd. 4. 1057. 



Perim-kaku-valli. Rheed. Mai 8. t. 32. 33. and 34. 



Entada. Rheed. Mai. 9. t. 77. 



Beng. Giila. 



An immense scandent plant of many years duration ; 

 the oldest in the Botanic garden has been there fifteen 

 years, and has not yet blossomed. Flowering time in the 

 forests of Silhet where it is common, March and April ; 

 the seed ripens toward the close ol" the year. 



