124 FLORA OF JAMAICA Prioria 



Bachelors Hall, near Bath, Wilson ! Mansfield, near Bath ; Meylersfield ; 

 Harris I Bachelors Hall, common at 600 ft., Harris d Brittonl Fl. Jam. 

 6001, 10,575, 11,814.— Panama. 



Tree 35 to 100 ft. high, 3-4 ft. in diam., glabrous. Leaflets elliptical or 

 ovate-elliptical, slightly curved inwards, sides somewhat unequal, apex 

 sometimes shortly and abruptly acuminate, with pellucid dots, veins 

 prominulous on both sides, 7-16 cm. 1. Bracteoles exceeding 1 mm. 1. 

 Flowers pale yellow, etrotigly scented. Sepals about 2*5 mm.l. ; margin 

 minutely ciliolate. Stamens 5 mm. 1. ; filaments hairy below ; apex of 

 connective fleshy, conical, appearing below the rever.>-ed anther. Pod 

 7-10 cm. 1., and about as broad, one side convex, the other flat or concave, 

 marked by longitudinal somewhat prominent veins running from the base 

 and sides and uniting at the apex, not splitting open, the seed germinating 

 in the pod and growing out at the apex. 



Subfamily 3. MIMOSE^. 



Flowers regular, parts of the flower generally in 5's, small, 

 in globular heads or cylindrical spikes. Sepals valvate. Petals 

 equal in number to the sepals, valvate, distinct or united into a 

 lobed corolla, hypogynous. Stamens equal in number to the 

 sepals, or twice as many, or numerous ; filaments distinct, or 

 united below into a tube, or adhering at the base to the tube of 

 the corolla ; anthers small, versatile. Radicle straight, shortly 

 exserted or enclosed. Leaves bipinnate, but pinnate in Inga. 



§18. Parts of the flower in 5's. Stamens 10, distinct ; anthers 

 with a small gland, which falls soon after the opening of 

 the flower. Pollen granules numerous, distinct. 



38. ENTADA Adans. 



Climbing shrubs; stem often very long. Leaves with the 

 uppermost pair of pinnae converted into tendrils in E. gigas. 

 Calyx campanulate, 5- toothed. Stamens shortly exserted. Pod 

 sometimes very large, flat-compressed, jointed ; the joints 1-seeded, 

 separating from each other, and leaving a continuous persistent 

 margin. 



Species 10, of which 1 is found widely distributed in the 

 tropics, 3 are confined to tropical America, and 6 are African. 



E. gigas comb. nov. E. scandens Benth. in HooJc. Journ. Bot. 

 iv. 332 (1842); Griseh. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 216; Benth. in Tram. 

 Linn. Sac. xxx. 363. E. gigalobium DC. Prodr. it. 424 (1825); 

 Macf. Jam. i. 303. Perim Kaku Valli Bheed. Mai. viii. 59, t. 32, 

 33, 34. Phaseolus maximus perennis folio &c. Sloane Gat. 68 & 

 E-ist. i. 178. Gigalobium &c. Browne Hist. Jam. 362. Mimosa 

 gigas L. Fl. Jam. 22 (1759) ; Amoen. v. 384 (1760). M. scandens 

 L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 1501 (1763); Sw. Obs. Bot. 389; Wright Mem. 



