286 L. LEGUMINOS^. (J. <3r. Baker.) \_Nepiunia. 



2. N. triquetra, Benth. in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 355 ; steins slender 

 ascending, leaflets 28-30 small, sterile flowers few, pod oblong not oblique 

 4-8-seeded. Dak. Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 84. Mimosa triquetra, Vahl ; Roxb. Hort. 

 Beng.4=Q; Fl. Ind. ii. 552. Desmanthus triquetrus, Willd.', DC. Prodr. ii. 

 444 ; Wall. Cat. 5296 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 270 ; Wight Ic. t. 75G. 



WESTERN PENINSULA and BUNDELKUND. DISTRIB. Brazil ? 



A low diffuse perennial, with slender stems, angular upwards. Stipules small, 

 acute ; pinnse 2-6, an inch or less long, with a gland on the rachis between the 

 lowest pair; leaflets ^-5- in. Heads small, globose, long or short-peduncled. 

 Corolla yellow, ~ i fl - l n g- Sterile flowers sometimes quite absent from the heads. 

 p d ._i in. long, with more membranous valves than in the two others, and a very 

 minute beak. 



N. PLENA, Benth. in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 355 ; stems stout ascending, 

 leaflets 40-60, sterile flowers numerous, pod oblong-ligulate 15-20-seeded. 

 Mimosa Adenanthera, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 554. Desmanthus Adenauthera, Wall. 

 Cat. 5298. D. plenus, punctatus and polyphyllus, DC. Prodr. ii. 444-5. 



NORTH WEST provinces and CEYLON, introduced. A native of Tropical America. 



Glabrous throughout. Stems comparatively stout, suffruticose, several feet high. 

 Pinna 6-10, with a ^land-between the lowest pair; leaflets like those of ' the last. 

 Stipules and bracts copious, cordate-ovate, acuminate. Heads copious, oblong. 

 Flowers and heads just like those of N. oleracea, but the pod twice as long. 



116. XYX.ZA, Benth. 



Tall unarmed tree. Leaves bipinnate. Flowers in round heads, mostly 

 perfect. Calyx tubular, 5-toothed at the tip. Petals 5, valvate, slightly united 

 at the base, little longer than the calyx. Stamens 10, free, exserted ; anthers 

 gland-crested in an early stage. Ovary sessile, many-ovuled ; style filiform, 

 stigma minute terminal. Pod large, woody, oblong-falcate, finally dehiscing, 

 flat, septate between the oblong compressed seeds. A single species. 



1. X. dolabriformis, Benth. in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 417. Dalz. fy Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 85 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 186 ; Brand. For. Fl. 171. Mimosa xylocarpa, 

 Roxb. Cor. PL t. 100; Hort. Beng. 40; Fl. Ind. ii. 543. Inga xylocarpa, DC. 

 Prodr. ii. 439 ; Wall. Cat. 5277 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 269. I. lignosa, Grah. in 

 Wall. Cat. 5278. I. dolabriformis, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5279. 



WESTERN PENINSULA, BIRMA, SINGAPORE. DISTRIB. Philippines. 



A tall tree, without prickles. Pinnae 2; leaflets 4-10, opposite, with an odd 

 one on the outside and with a gland on the rachis between each, oblong, acute, 

 subcoriaceous, glabrous, 3-6 in. long, the lowest much shorter. Flowers sessile, in 

 dense globose peduncled heads, crowded on short branchlets developed with the 

 young leaves. Corolla % in. Pod 4-6 in. by l-2 in., 6-10-seeded. 



117. ENTADA, Adans, 



Woody unarmed climbers with tendrils. Leaves bipinnate. Floivers in 

 long narrow spikes, minute, yellowish, polygamous. Calyx minute, campanu- 

 late, equally 5-toothed. Corolla oblong in bud, the 5 long equal narrow lobes 

 falcate in expansion. Stamens 10, free, shortly exserted, filaments filiform ; 

 anthers crowned with a gland. Ovary subsessile, many-ovuled ; style filiform, 

 stigma concave terminal. Pod flat, woody, very large, composed of many discoid 

 one-seeded joints, the endocarp persisting round the large compressed orbicular 

 seeds. DISTRIB. Species 10, the others Trop. African and American. 



