452 BENGAL PLANTS. [Entada, 
or polygamous; bracts minute, triangular or subulate ; bracteoles 
0. Sepals 5, connate in a campanulate calyx; teeth short. 
Petals 5, free or slightly connate, valvate. Stamens 10, free, 
little exserted, filiform; anthers shortly oblong, gland-tipped; 
pollen- “granules many. Ovary subsessile, many-ovuled; style — 
nea 
pt eit dew Ta 
straight or curved, fir y coriaceous or woody lomentum with 
thickened, persistent, continuous sutures, pericarp separating from 
the transversely articulated endocarp, which breaks away in 
l-seeded joints. Seeds large, orbicular, lee hilum small. 
696. See PurszTua DO. E. scandens F. B. I. ii. 287; B.D. 
19. Mimosa scandens F. I. ii. 554. 
* ehtiapede’ Chota Nagpur; Oris 
A large climber. Beng. Gila; Ovi Geredi. 
Bs tne ee ee Oe Shanes. 
293, Adenanthera Linn. { | 
Erect, unarmed trees; leaves 2-pinnate; pinne opposite, but — 
their ti hahe alternate, even-pinnate ; stipules very minute, cadu- oe 
cous ; stipels 0. Flowers in slender, subspicate racemes, either 
connate below, valvate. Stamens 10, free, hardly exserted; 2 
pane oblong, gland-tipped ; pollen-gran les numerous. Ovary : 
sessile, many-ovuled; style filiform; stigma small, te 
Pau: a linear, faleate, torulose ied! septate =e the valves : 
coriaceous, much twisted after dehiscence. - Seeds ’ p 
polished, pink or pink with bl ack eye, often, with nA, pulpy . 
covering, 
a 
697. ADENANTHERA Pavontna Linn.; F. I. ii, 870; FB. 1. ii, 287; . 
E. D. A. 471. a 
ae Tippera. ; - 
A tree. Beng. Rakto-kanchan, ranjan.. ; . 
294. Prosopis Linn. 
Shrubs or trees, with scattered prickles ; Jeaves evenly 2-pinnates 
pinne usually few- -paired ; leaflets many, narrow, coriaceous; — : 
stipules small or 0, sometimes spinescent ; stipels 0; interfoliolar : 
glands usually present but small. lower i 
