LEGUMINOS^. 303 



10-25, with anthers glandulose at the apex. Legume 

 compressed, distinctly articulated, with the valves 

 frequently on maturity separating into 2 membranes ; 

 joints 1 -seeded ; costae persistent : seeds thick ; coty- 

 ledons fleshy, unchanged during germination, and 

 enclosed within the spermodermium under the ground. 

 De Cand. 



Name, from zvrarog strung, from the joints of the legume 

 being, as it were, strung together. 



1. Entada gigalobium. Cocoon. 



Leaves bipinnate terminating in a tendril, pinnae 

 2-paired, leaflets 4 5-paired glabrous on both sides 

 oblong emarginate, spikes supra-axillary, stamens 10. 



Phaseolus maximus perennis, folio decomposite, lobo maxirno 

 contorto, Sloane, Jam. 68. Gigalobium, Browne, 362. Mi- 

 mosa scandens, Swartz, Obs. 389. Acacia scandens, Willd. IV. 

 1057. Entada gigalobium, De Cand. II. 424. 



HAB. Common in mountain woods. 



FL. August. 



Stem climbing to a great height, 100-150 feet in length : 

 branches angulose, glabrous. Leaves bi-pinnate : pinnae 2- 

 paired : leaflets 4-5-paired, petiolulated, oblong, rounded and 

 subemarginate at the apex, somewhat unequilateral at the base, 

 delicately nerved and veined, glabrous, shining: common pe- 

 tiole subterete, slightly channelled above, terminating in a long 

 bifid tendril : partial petioles articulated on the common. Sti- 

 pules subulate, appressed. An open glandular pore or foramen 

 a little below and on each side of the insertion of the petiole. 

 Spike supra-axillary (with a row of tufted glandules between 

 the axil of the leaf and the insertion of the spike), very long 

 (longer than the leaf) : rachis terete, occasionally terminating 

 in a tendril : flowers numerous, small, very shortly pedicelled, 

 each furnished at the insertion with a minute lanceolate bractea. 

 Calyx minute, 5-dentate. Petals 5, oblong, small, green. 

 Stamens 10 (according to Swartz 20-24), capillary, longer 

 than the petals, twisted and hence apparently of the same 

 length : anthers green, didymous, bearing a minute shortly pe- 

 dicelled glandule. Pistil sometimes abortive, and its parts im- 

 perfectly developed : ovary lineari-oblong, glabrous : style pro- 

 truding beyond the twisted stamens, capillary, green, twisted : 

 stigma white, obtuse. Legume very large, 6-8 feet in length, 

 4 inches or more in breadth at the widest part, compressed, 

 glabrous, of a brown colour, variously twisted, 2-valved, 10 

 12-seeded: seeds suborbiculate, compressed, 2 inches in breadth. 



This is a very common climber in woods on the North 



