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7. Entada Adans. — Flowers of Adenanthera ; receptacle short 

 cupuliform, lined by a disk. Legume straight or bowed (in a few 

 species very large), piano-compressed ; margins straight or some- 

 what constricted between seeds ; pericarp thin submembranous or 

 coriaceous, or more rarely woody; sutures thick persistent con- 

 tinuous; valves lomentaceous transversely articulated, separating 

 between the sutures; endocarp in separate 1 -seeded segments per- 

 sisting round the orbiculate thick included seed and separating from 

 exocarp. — Shrubs, often high-climbing, unarmed ; leaves 2-pinnate ; 

 pinnas of highest row sometimes changed into spiral tendrils ; leaflets 

 either small numerous or larger few ; stipules small setaceous ; 

 petiolar glands 0; flowers in spikes; spikes thin solitary or gemi- 

 nate, placed at extremities of Wigs, sometimes approximated to 

 form a leafless racemose panicle {Tropical America, Asia, Oceanic. 

 and Africa) — See p. 26. 



8. Tetrapleura Benth. — " Flowers of Entada" Legume oblong 

 4-gonous, nearly straight or subfalciform, indehiscent thick ; sutures 

 2 and faces 2 produced to form thick angular longitudinal cruciate 

 wing ; endocarp thick, spuriously septate within between separate 

 compressed transverse seeds. — An unarmed tree ; " leaves opposite 

 2-pinnate; small leaflets and pinnse oc -jugate; flowers in spiciform 

 cylindrical axillary racemes" {Western tropical Africa). — See p. 27. 



9. Gagnebina Neck. — Flowers of Adenanthera, but with convex 

 receptacle and hypogynous perianth. Legume linear-oblong some- 

 what thick compressed indehiscent ; sutures with membranous 

 wings ; endocarp thick projecting within between seeds ; locelli oc, 

 each containing 1 transverse ovate seed. — An unarmed tree ; leaves 

 2-pinnate ; small leafless and pinna? oo -jugate ; petiolar gland broad ; 

 jugal glands small setaceous ; flowers in spikes ; spikes cylindrical 

 pedunculate, fascicled in higher axils, or panicled at extremities of 

 twigs {Madagascar). — See p. 27. 



10. Prosopis L. — Flowers of Piptadenia ; stamina! gland of vari- 

 able form, usually deciduous, more rarely 0. Legume linear thick 

 compressed or subterete, straight or falciform, hard and circinate {Cir- 

 cinaria) or variously contorted, more rarely bent into a more or I 

 regular and close spiral {Slrombocarjjus), sometimes straight verj 



