— Entada.) LEGUMINOS2. 451 
{Sutures thickened ; pod revolutely dehiscent, the valves opening 
elastically from apex to base [p. 450] ....-++++++++0+0+- alliandra. 
Pod t 
wisted, with coriaceous valves [p. 450] ..---- Pithecolobium. 
*Pod septate between the seeds, indehiscent ; valves spongy or fleshy ; 
sutures thickened [p. 450].....-.-+-s+ecceeseceeeeeeerenerees Enterolobium. 
291. Parkia R.Br. 
5, connate in a small tubular calyx, tube adnate to cael or foes : 
lobes short, imbricate, a Q-lipped. Petals 5, linear- 
spathulate, connate to the middle or free, valvate or subvalvate. 
eens 10, exserted, connate below, and there adnate to corolla 
y free from the petals; anthers oblong, gland-tipped ; 
sy Sia the clusters 2-seriate. Ovary sessile or stipitate, 
many-ovuled; style filiform; stigma small, capitate, terminal. 
Fruit a large, flat, ligulate, Olitaataty dehiscing, coriaceous or 
fleshy pod, sometimes long-stipitate. Seeds transverse, thick, 
compressed or ovoid. 
Petiole with two glands aeons _ by side; leaflets on each pinna 
bigla 
nen ; heads subspherical..........se-:ecesesesestereees iglandulosa. 
etiole = gg gland ; leadtets on ipa une 40-80 pairs ; pee some- 
Beebe csbs cis nnnsesensnininrt > rencchareHaeapaiterdensbeartne” De 
F ietiveiata Fok. 8: 551. 
695. Parkra loa G. Don; F. B.-L ii. 989. Mimosa 
biglobosa F. I. ii. 551. 
Chittagong ; sometimes planted in Bengal. 
A tall tree. Beng. Sapota. 
292, Entada Adans. 
Very large, woody climbers ; : leaves 2-pinnate, the ultimate 
_ sometimes modified as tendrils without leaflets; one 
- sg Setaceous ; stipels 0. roe in slender spikes, some’ 
the branches, sometimes paniculate ; uniform hermaphrodite 
