Saraca.] XXXI. LEGUMINOS^. 167 



red. Edge of the disc a crenulated ring at the mouth of the calyx-tube. 

 Pod 6-10 in. long, 2 in. broad, valves hard, woody, reticulate outside. 

 Seeds 4-8, smooth. 



Indigenous in the forests of South India and Eastern Bengal, cultivated near 

 Hmdu temples and iu gardens in most parts of India. Fl. Mai-ch, April ; fr. 

 ripens Aug., Sept. Heartwood hard, dark-coloured. 



Thied Sub-Obdbe, MIMOSE.S. 



Trees, shrubs, rarely herbs, with abruptly bipinnate, rarely pinnate 

 leaves, and small flowers in heads or spikes. Flowers regular, occasionally 

 polygamous. Sepals generally connate into a 5-lobed calyx, rarely free, 

 valvate. Petals hypogynous, as many as sepals, usually connate, valvate. 

 Stamens hypogynous, as many as sepals, double their number, or nume- 

 rous, free or monadelphous, with small, 2-celled anthers, the ceUs, dehis- 

 cing longitudinally. Pollen (in species of Acacia, Alhizzia, and Pitheco- 

 lobium) cohering in 3-4 masses in each cell. Seeds without albumen, the 

 embryo with a straight radicle. 



Stamens 10 ; anthers witli deciduous apical glands. 

 Flowers in spikes or racemes (Indian species). 



Unarmed climbers ; pods 2-3 ft. long, flat, constricted he- 



tween seeds 1. Entada. 



Shrubs or trees, often spiuesoent. 

 All flowers bisexual, or sterile flowers mixed with the 

 fertile. 

 Flowers pediceUed, in long slender racemes; pods 



2-valved 2. Adenantheea. 



Flowers sessile, in slender cylindrical spikes ; pods 



2-valved . 3. Piptadenia. 



Flowers sessile, iu cylindrical spikes ; pods indehisoent i. Prosopis. 

 Upper flowers of the dense cylindrical spikes bisexual, 



the lower neuter 6. Diohkostachts. 



Flowers in globose heads ; pod thick, woody, falcate . . 6. Xylia. 

 Stamens 8-10 or more, but definite, anthers without glands. 



Pods flat, linear, 2-valved ....... 7. Leuo^na. 



Pods 2-valved, the valves separating in joints or entire from 



the persistent frame 8. Mimosa. 



Stamens indefinite, more or less connate. 

 Armed or unarmed trees ; pinnse 1-2 pair ; pods coriaceous, 



twisted 9. PrrHECOLOBiuM. 



Unarmed trees ; pinnae generally numerous ; pods thin, flat, 



straight, 2-valved 10. Albizzia. 



Stamens indefinite, free; armed trees, shrubs or climbers ; pods 



' dehiscent or indehiscent, flat or turgid . . . .11. Acacia. 



1. ENTADA, Linn. 



1. E. scandens, Benth. in Hoot. Joum. of Botany, iv. (1842) 332.— 

 Syn. E. Purscetha, DC. j W. & A. Prodr. 267. Mimosa scandens, Eoxb. 

 Fl. Ind. ii. 554. Vern. Gilla, Beng. ; Oardal, Bombay. 



A large climber, stems angled, often curiously twisted and curled. 

 Glabrous, but inflorescence pubescent. Common petiole ending in a long, 

 woody, bifld tendril. Pinnse 2 pair ; leaflets 3-4 pair, 1-3 in. long, shining. 

 Flowers pale yeUow, sessile, in long slender spikes, generally 4-8 on a 



