Acrocarpus. ] LEGUMINOSH. 409 
indehiscent or tardily opening in 2 valves, the upper suture bordered 
with a wing. bumen none.—Woody, prickly-armed climbers, 
with abruptly bipinnate leaves, the leaflets opposite or alternate. 
Flowers showy, in racemes often collected in a panicle, 
Leaflets 4 in. long, blunt or retuse, in 8-10 pairs glabrum. 
ets i 2 in. long, bluntish cumiieutic in 3-4 pairs : «i af, uaeiin. 
- M. glabrum, Desf.—A large scandent shrub armed with 
recurved prickles, all parts glabrous, or the shoots more or less 
puberulous or pubescent ; leaves abruptly es ect 1-14 ft. long, 
with 4-10 pairs of pinnz, the secondary rachises puberulous, the 
ain rachis armed with recurved prickles ; leaflets oblong to ellip- 
tically obovate, alternate or opposite or nearly so, in 8-10 pairs, 
very shortly petioluled, blunt or rather retuse, about 4 in. long, 
membranous, glabrous, glaucescent beneath; flowers rather large, 
yellow, on }$ in. long puberulous pedicels, forming a pu 
raceme in the axils of the ieaived ad collected in a panicle at the 
end of the branches; filaments somewhat pubescent ; pods about 
4 in. long, chestnut-brown or brown, glossy, chartaceous, smooth, 
the wing about } in. broad or somewhat narrower. 
Has.—Frequent in the lower and upper mixed forests, and especially: around 
villages and along Seaton of Pegu; a more Ane oma variety in the dry forests 
—Fr. C.S.—L—SS.=SiS., Ca.S., Dil., All. 
a cucullatum, WA. ; Brand. For. Fl. 155.—Kyoung-chet.— 
A ‘es Hop! scandent shrub, all parts quite glabrous ; stems 
terete, about as as a man’s arm or thicker, brownish grey, 
covered with small may pustules and woody compressed oval warts 
terminated by a straight, short, but sharp prickle ; leaves abruptly 
bipinnate, 1-14 ft. long, with 2-4 pairs of pinne, the rachises 
with recurved prickles; leaflets ovate to elliptically ovate, 
in 3-4 pairs, on a line long petiolule, bluntish acuminate, 14-2 in. 
long, entire or waved, thin coriaceous, glabrous and glossy ; flowers 
middling-sized, yellow, on 3-6 lin. long pedicels, forming simple or 
branched glabrous racemes often arranged in a terminal panicle ; 
filaments glabrous, bluish ; pods 2-4 in. long, very flat, brown and 
rather glossy, the wing about $ in. broad. 
Has.—Frequent all over Burma from Ava to Pegu and Martaban, in the 
mixed and dry forests.—Fl. Febr.-March; Fr. Nov.—l.—SS.= 
desert Pileee 
Ovary adeod. free on the bottom of the cass, ans many- 
