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the endocarp persisting round the large compressed orbicular seeds. 

 Species 10, the others Trop. African and American. 



Entada scandens Benth. in Hook. Journ. Bot. IV. 332. A very- 

 large slender creeper ; branches woody terete glabrous. Leaves with 

 petiole 2-4 in. long, the rachis as long or longer ending usually in a 

 tendril ; pinnae usually 4 with stalks 15-25 in. long, leaflets oblong or 

 obovate, obtuse or acute, 1-2 in. long, *6-l'25 in. wide, glabrous, dark- 

 green, rigidly coriaceous, shining above; petiolules '1 in. Inflorescence 

 of peduncled spikes, 6-10 in. long, usually panicled from the nodes of 

 old leafless branches, sometimes simple from the axils of the leaves. 

 Flowers 'I— '15 in. long, sessile or very shortly pedicellate. Calyx green, 

 5-toothed, teeth valvate. Corolla yellow. Pod 1-3 feet long, 3-4 in. 

 wide, 1'5 in. thick, slightly curved, sutures very thick indented between 

 seeds, valves woody depressed sublineate between the seeds, with a 

 tendency to segmentation. Seeds 5-15, oblong, somewhat flattened, 2 

 in. long, 225 in. wide, 1*25 in. thick, testa very dark- brown, thick tough 

 polished, slightly oily. Brand. For. Flor. 167 ; Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. 

 II, 287. E. Purssetha DC. Prodr. II, 425 ; Wall. Cat. 5294 ; W. & A. 

 Prodr. 267 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 45; Scheff. in Nat. Tijds. Ned. Ind. 

 XXXII. 412 t. 16, t. 18A. E. monostachya DC. Prodr. II, 425 ; Wall. 

 Cat. 5293. E. Bheedei Spreng. Syst. II, 325. E. Parr ana Spreng. 

 Syst. II, 325. E. Bumphii Scheff. Nat. Tijds. Ned. Ind. XXXII, 412 

 t. 17, t. 18B. Mimosa scandens Linn. Sp. PI. ed. II. 1501 ; Roxb. Flor. 

 Ind. 5£4. Rumph. Herb. Amboin. V. 5. t. 4 ; Rheede, Hort. Malab. 

 VIII. t. 32, 33,34; IX, t. 77. 



Andamanr; very common on the coasts. Nicobars: Kurz ! Coco 

 Group; Prain! Narcondam ; Prain ! Penang ; Porter (Wall. Cat. 5293) ! 

 Curtis 115! Malacca; Hervey ! Berry! Perak ; Scortechini 769! 

 Kunstler 1018! 6228! Wray 1676! 1715! 2866! Distrib. Tropics 

 generally. 



Rather variable as to number and size of leaflets ; both the forms figured by 

 Scheffer occnr in our area Thut which he terms E. Rumphii is much the commoner 

 in the Malay Peninsula : from the Andamans and Nicobars only the form 

 E. Purscetha is reported. 



60. Adenanthera Linn. 



Erect trees without spines or tendrils. Leaves ample, bipitmate. 

 Flowers minute, in narrow spike-like racemes, hermaphrodite, usually 

 pentamerous. Calyx campanulate, equally toothed. Petals valvate, 

 equal, lanceolate, cohering only at the very base. Stamens 10, free, 

 equalling the corolla ; anthers tipped with a gland. Ovary sessile, 

 many-ovuled ; style filiform, stigma minute capitate. Pod strap-shaped, 

 torulose, falcate, the coriaceous valves much twisted after they separate. 



