Adenanthera. | LEGUMINOS#. 417 
with st thickened borders, jointed, torulose ; seeds nearly 13 in. 
in 
oe all over Burma and adjacent provinces and islands, ——_ 
aly in the mixed forests—FI. March- Apr. ; Fr. C.S.—s: 1—8S.= @ SiS, 
RemsRxs.—Wood very coarse, fibrous, and porous. 
ADENANTHERA, L. 
Calyx 5-toothed. Petals 5, valvate, at length free. Stamens 
10, free; anthers tipped with a deciduous gland. Ovary sessile, 
with several ovules; style filiform, with a ‘eine terminal stigma, 
Pod compressed, elongate, often curled up when fully ripe, 2-valved, 
the endocarp often forming more or less complete partitions between 
the seeds. Testa of seeds hard, shining somaet: Albumen scanty. 
—Unarmed trees, with abruptly bipinnate leaves. Flowers small, 
pedicelled, in long spike-like racemes often collected in a terminal 
5 
1. A. pavonina, L.; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. t. 96.; Brand. For. 
Fl. 168 — Yuay-kyee. —A tree (60—70+30—40 4 46), shedding 
leaves in C.S., the young shoots appressed silk-hairy ; leaves abruptly 
ptonate, 1- 4 ft. 1006 with 5-2 pinnew, while young appressed 
escent ; leaflets in 6-10 pan, ona ra short puberulous petiolule, 
long, linear, acuminate at both ends, when fully ripe curling up, 
torose, 2-valved, thin coriaceous, black and glabrous outside, pale- 
yellow within ; ‘seeds about 4 lin. in diameter, shining scarlet, len- 
ticular-compressed. 
Has.—Frequent all over Burma and adjacent islands, in the — forests 
up to 2,500 ft. elevation.—Fl. Apr.-May; Fr. C.S.—s _—88.=SiS Metam. 
RemarKs.— Wood Drage heavy, coarse, fibrous, light-brown or oillcintle 
grey, turning brown at exposure, hard and ¢ attacked by 
phages ; the heart-wood dark-brown, solid, hast and auiable. Suitable for 
pa gala Wood yields =} red dye. The scarlet seeds are used by jewellers 
for weights, also for ornaments, &c. 
PARKIA, RB. Br. 
Flowers 5-parted, in heads, the upper ones hermaphrodite, the 
wer ones e or sterile. Calyx tubular with a shortly 5- 
lobed bilabiate limb, the two lower segments larger. Petals nar- 
towly linear-spatulate, confluent below with the filaments, valvate _ 
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