 Neptinia.} LEGUMINOS&. 453 
Petals 5, ligulate, valvate, subconnate at base. Stamens 10, free, 
slightly exserted; filaments filiform; anthers ovate, gland-tipped. 
Ovary stipitate or sessile, many-ovuled ; style filiform; stigma 
terminal, small. Fruit a linear, compressed or subterete, indehis- 
cent omentum, straight or twisted, septate within ; mesocarp thick, 
spongy ; endocarp thin, firm. Seeds usually ovate, compressed, 
698. Prosopis sprcraERA Linn.; F. B. I. ii. 288; E. D. P. 1459, 
Adenanthera aculeata F. I. ii. 871. 
Behar; sometimes planted in other provinces. 
small tree. Hind. Jhand; Beng. and Uriya Shami. 
295. Dichrostachys DC. 
Shrubs ; branches here and there spinescent; leaves evenly 2- 
‘ fi i 
indehiscent or irregularly disarticulating lomentum, continuous 
Within. Seeds obovate, compressed. 
699. Dicnrostacnys civeREA W. & A.; F. B. I. ii. 288. Mimosa 
cinerea F. I. ii. 561. 
Orissa, Khurda. 
A large shrub. Vernac. Vurtuli. 
296. Neptunia Lour. 
Perennial herbs or undershrubs, branches often compressed or 
ed; leaves evenly 2-pinnate ; leaflets small, sensitive ; stipules 
— i stipels 0, Flowers small, in ovate-globose, pedune ed, 
ar ~ heads; upper flowers ¢, lower ¢; lowest neuter 
th protruding, flattened staminodes ; bracts minute ; bracteoles 0. 
Sepals 5, connate in a campanulate tube; teeth short. Petals 5, 
in ¢ d z flowers 10, 
tarely 5, free, exserted, tipped by @ stipitate gland; pollen in 
ee ig granules; staminodes in neuter flowers 10, id, 
exserted, Ovary stipitate, many-ovuled ; style filiform ; stigma 
