Saraca.] XXXI. LEGUMINOS^. 167 



red. Edge of the disc a crenulated ring at the mouth of the calyx-tube. 

 Pod 6-10 in. long, 2 in. broad, valves hard, woody, reticulate outside. 

 Seeds 4-8, smooth. 



Indigenous in the forests of South India and Eastern Bengal, cultivated near 

 Hindu temples and in gardens in most parts of India. Fl. March, April ; fr. 

 ripens Aug., Sept. Heartwood hard, dark-coloured. 



Third Sub-Order, MIMOSE.&. 



Trees, shrubs, rarely herbs, with abruptly bipinnate, rarely pinnate 

 leaves, and small flowers in heads or spikes. Flowers regular, occasionally 

 polygamous. Sepals generally connate into a 5-lobed calyx, rarely free, 

 valvate. Petals hypogynous, as many as sepals, usually connate, valvate. 

 Stamens hypogynous, as many as sepals, double their number, or nume- 

 rous, free or monadelphous, with small, 2-celled anthers, the cells dehis- 

 cing longitudinally. Pollen (in species of Acacia, Albizzia, and Pitheco- 

 lobium) cohering in 3-4 masses in each cell. Seeds without albumen, the 

 embryo with a straight radicle. 



Stamens 10 ; anthers with deciduous apical glands. 

 Flowers in spikes or racemes (Indian species). 



Unarmed climbers ; pods 2-3 ft. long, flat, constricted be- 

 tween seeds 1. Entada. 



Shrubs or trees, often spinescent. 



All flowers bisexual, or sterile flowers mixed with the 

 fertile. 

 Flowers pedicelled, in long slender racemes; pods 



2-valved 2. Adena'nthera. 



Flowers sessile, in slender cylindrical spikes ; pods 



2-valved 3. Piptadenia. 



Flowers sessile, in cylindrical spikes ; pods indehiscent 4. Prosopis. 

 Upper flowers of the dense cylindrical spikes bisexual, 



the lower neuter 5. Dichrostachys. 



Flowers in globose heads ; pod thick, woody, falcate . . 6. Xyua. 

 Stamens 8-10 or more, but definite, anthers without glands. 



Pods flat, linear, 2-valved .'.'. 7. LEuciBNA. 



Pods 2-valved, the valves separating in joints or entire from 



the persistent frame 8. Mimosa. 



Stamens indefinite, more or less connate. 



Armed or unarmed trees; pinnse 1-2 pair; pods coriaceous, 



twisted 9. Pithecolobium. 



Unarmed trees ; pinnfe generally numerous ; pods thin, flat, 



straight, 2-valved 10. Albizzia. 



Stamens indefinite, free ; armed trees, shrubs or climbers ; pods 



dehiscent or indehiscent, flat or turgid . . . .11. Acacia. 



1. ENTADA, Linn. 

 1. E. scandens, Benth. in Hook. Journ. of Botany, iv. (1842) 332. 

 Syn. E. Purso&tlia, DC. ; W. & A. Prodr. 267. Mimosa scandens, Eoxb. 

 Fl. Ind. ii. 554. Vern. Gitta, Beng. ; Gardal, Bombay. 



A large climber, stems angled, often curiously twisted and curled. 

 Glabrous, but inflorescence pubescent. Common petiole ending in a long, 

 woody, bifid tendril. Pinnse 2 pair ; leaflets 3-4 pair, 1-3 in. long, shining. 

 Flowers pale yellow, sessile, in long slender spikes, generally 4-8 on a 



