242; Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



the endocarp persisting round the large compressed orbicular seeds. 

 Species 10, the others Trop. African and American. 



Entada scandens Bentli. in Hook. Journ. Bot. IV. 332. A very 

 large slender creeper ; branches woody terete glabions. Leaves with 

 petiole 2-4 in. long, tlie rachis as loug or longer ending usually iu a 

 tendril ; pinnge usually 4 with stalks 15-2-5 in. long, leaflets oblong or 

 obovate, obtuse or acute, 1-2 in. long, •6-1-25 in. wide, glabrous, dark- 

 green, rigidly coriaceous, shining above; petiolules "1 in. Inflorescence 

 of peduncled spikes, 6-10 in. long, usually pauicled from the nodes of 

 old leafless branches, sometimes simple from the axils of the leaves. 

 Flotvers [--15 in. long, sessile or very shortly pedicellate. Cahjx green, 

 5-toothed, teeth valvate. Corolla yellow. Pod 1-3 feet long, 3-4 in. 

 wide, 1"5 in. thick, slightly curved, sutures very thick indented between 

 seeds, valves woody depressed sublineate between the seeds, with a 

 tendency to segmentation. Seeds 5-15, oblong, somewhat flattened, 2 

 in. long, 2-25 in. wide, 1-25 in. thick, testa very dark-brown, thick tough 

 polished, slightly oily. Brand. For. Flor. 167 ; Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. 

 II, 287. E. Purssetha DC. Prodr. II, 425 ; Wall. Cat. 5294 ; W. & A. 

 Prodr. 267 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 45 ; Scheff. in Nat. Tijds. Ned. Ind. 

 XXXII. 412 t. 16, t. 18A. E. monostachya DC. Prodr. II, 425 ; Wall. 

 Cat. 5293. E. Bheedei Spreng. Syst. II, 325. E. Parrana Spreng. 

 Syst. II, 325. E. Rumphii Scheff. Nat. Tijds. Ned. Ind. XXXII, 412 

 t. 17, t. 18B. Mimosa scandens Linn. Sp. PI. ed. II. 1501 ; Roxb. Flor. 

 Ind. 5:4. Rumph. Herb. Amboin. V. 5. t. 4 ; Rheede, Hort. Malab. 

 Vlll.t. 32, 33,34; IX, t. 77. 



Andaman?; very common on the coasts. Nicobaes: Kurz ! Coco 

 Group; Prain! Narcondam ; Prain ! Penang; Porter (Wall. Cat. 5293) ! 

 Curtis 115! Malacca; Hervey ! Berry! Perak ; Scortechini 769! 

 Kunsller 1018! 6228! Wray 1676! 1715! 2866! Distrib. Tropics 

 generally. 



Rathex' variable as to number and size of leaflets ; both the forms fignred by 

 Scheffer occur in our area That which he terms E. Rumphii is much the commoner 

 in the Malay Peninsula : from the Andamans and Nicobars only the form 

 E. Purscetha is reported. 



60. Adenanthera Linn. 



Erect trees without spines or tendrils. Leaves ample, bipinnate. 

 Floivers minute, in narrow spike-like racemes, hermaphrodite, usually 

 peutamerous. Calyx campanulate, equally toothed. Petals valvate, 

 equal, lanceolate, cohering only at the very base. Stamens 10, free^ 

 equalling the corolla ; anthers tipped with a gland. Ovary sessile, 

 many-ovuled ; style filiform, stigma minute capitate. Pod strap-shaped, 

 torulose, falcate, the coriaceous valves much twisted after they separate-. 



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