462 BENGAL PLANTS. [ Pithecolobium. 
or 0; bracteoles 0. Sepals 5, rarely 6, connate in a campanulate 
or tubular calyx ; teeth very short. Petals 5, rarely 6, connate in 
a tubular corolla with long, valvate lobes. Stamens numerous, 
far exserted, connate below in a tube; anthers small; pollen- 
granules in each cell 2-4. Ovary sessile or rege: many-ovuled; 
style filiform ; stigma minute, capitate. Fruit a ligulate, cireinate, 
less often only — usually much rll sey or less often an : 
indehiscent lomentum, with unthickened sutures. Seeds some 
imes arillate or tibadiolt in pulp, ovate or orbicular, compressed. — 
Stipules spinescent; pinne and obiere leaflets each 1-jugate ; sae whe . 
covered by a white, pulpy, edible aril ..............cccecsseseseereneneeeees 
Stipules not spinescent ; binne ges -jugate, and large, acute a 
3-6-jugate ; seeds not arilla a _angulatum. 
728.  ehegeapaT putce Benth.; F. B. I. ii. 302; EB. D 
Mimosa dulcis F. I. ii, 5 6. 
oe everywhere, but often also self-sown. 
A medium tree; often also trimmed as a hedge. Native 
of Tropical America. Vernac. Belati amli; dekhani 
babul. 
729. PITHECOLOBIUM ANGULATUM Heath F, B. I. ii, 906 
Mimosa heterophylla F. I. ii. 545 
Chittagong ; Tippera, 
A tall tree. 
305. Enterolobium Mart. 
Erect trees; leavés evenly 2-pinnate; pinne even-pinnale; 
leaflets opposite ; stipules small, eocgian stipels 0. Flowers 
in globose heads, on solitary or subfasciculate peduncles, axillary 
or the upper racemose ; bracts lanceolate ; bracteoles 0. 
r 
Ai arp cartilaginous, hack mh the septa. seit 
verse, compressed ; funicle slender, 
