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Colemala. Neilgherries. Concans. Assam. Flowering in the 
rainy season. The bark and leaves afford the gum kino, exported 
in great quantities from the Malabar Coast. 
(3) P. Wauiicun. (W. & A.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 267. 
Engrav. Wight’s Il. I. t. 78 
Spec. Cuan. Tree: leaflets about 9, alternate, ovate or oval 
with a sudden bluntish acumination: panicles axillary : bracts subu- 
Jate, cadacous: petals long-clawed, curled and waved on the mar- 
gins: stamens united into a sheath, split down on the upper side 
only: flowers yellow. 
Peninsula. 
GENUS LXII. ENTADA. 
Poliysamia Moneeeia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. The Malxbar name latinized. 
Gex. Cuan. Large climbing shrubs, unarmed : leaves bipinnat- 
“Sed or conjugately pinnated, the rachis often ending iu a tendril: 
flowers spiked, very numerous: petals 5, distinct or slightiy con- 
nected at the very base: stamens 10-25: anthers tipped with a 
gland: legume compressed, jointed; joints I-seeded, the valves 
nN from each other when ripe, the sutures persistent ; seeds 
thick 
(1) E. Pusarua. (Dee.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 267.—Dee. prod. IT. p. 425. 
Syn. E. monostachya, Dec. 1. ¢.—E. Rheedii, Spreng.—Mimo- 
‘sa scandens, Linn. Roxb. fl. Ind. ILL. p. 554.—M. entada, Linn,— 
Acacia scandens, Willd. 
Engrav. Rheede Mal. VIII t. 32, 33, 34, and IX. t. 77.— 
Rumph. Amb. V. t. 4. 
Srrc. Cuar. Climbing: leaves bipinnated : pinne 2 pairs, 
sometimes only J puir; leaflets 2-3- -pair, glabrous, oblong-obovate 
or ovate, emarginate; spikes solitary or in pairs, axillary : petals 
connected at the base: "stamens 10: legume more or less twisted, 
very large: flowers white or pale- -yellow. 
Malabar. Travancore. Flowering in April, The seeds are used 
as an antifebrile medicine by the lower classes. In Java they are 
xoasted and eaten like chestnuts. 
