3 Enterolobium, ] ROSACEA. 463 
730, ENTeRoLoprum Saman Prain; E. D. A. 720; P. 909. 
Planted ; especially in Central and Eastern parts, 
A medium-sized spreading tree; pods pulpy. Native of 
Tropical America. 
Order XLYII. ROSACEA, 
Herbs, shrubs, sometimes sarmentose or climbing, or trees. 
Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, simple or compound ; stipules 2, 
free, or adnate to petiole, very rarely obsolete. Flowers usually 
regular and hermaphrodite. Disk lining the calyx-tube or forming 
&ring at its base. Sepals connate in a tube, adnate to the ovary 
or free; limb usually 5-lobed, the fifth lobe uppermost; lobes 
Usually persistent, often bracteolate, imbricate or valvate. Petals 
5, rarely 0, ins ; j 
te or filiform, usually incurved in bud; anthers 
: didymous ; dehiscence longitudinal, introrse. Carpels 1 or 
More, free or connate ; styles basal, lateral, or subterminal, free or 
“nnate; stigmas simple or capitate or penicillate; ovules 1 or 
in each carpel, anatropous, pendulous with a ventral, or 
ding with a dorsal raphe. Fruit usually indehiscent, of 
clustered achenes or drupes, or a berry, or single drupe, rarely 
“apsular dehiscent. Seeds erect or pendulous ; testa membranous 
9? gaa albumen 0; embryo with large, flat, fleshy coty- 
ns, 
oe Superior ; the ripe carpels not enclosed in the calyx-tube :— 
SrPél solitary ; unarmed shrubs or trees.....s1..scsssseseeeseeeee Pyg 
Is many :— 
Unarmed herbs ; ripe carpels dry ; ovules solitary, ascending :— 
Achenes set on a fleshy receptacle «ic. ..cisijisee deans F 
Achenes set on a dry receptacle ...Potentilla. 
Sg Shrubs ; ripe carpels fleshy ; ovules 2, pendulous......Rubus. 
snetior ;, the ripe carpels enclosed in the calyx-tube :— 
Armed shrubs, with compound leaves and large adnate stipules; 
ae many, not confluent when ripe Rosa. 
| trees, with simple leaves and small stipules; carpels few, 
confluent when ripe :— 
aoeey “Celled ; flowers panicled ......s:sscecseossvsesoeeseete Eriobotrya. 
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Ovary 2-3-celled ; flowers corymbose ..,.-+-++++ seseseeeeeeeePOurthiaga, 
