26 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
seeds suspended on fleshy funicles. X. dolabriformis,' the only species 
of this genus, is a lofty unarmed tree, from tropical Asia. Its leaves 
are bipinnate, with a few broad leaflets possessing petiolary glands. 
Lintada,’ too, possesses the flowers of Adenanthera, Elephantorrhiza, 
&c. The receptacle forms a shallow cup lined by a glandular disk, 
external to which are inserted the stamens. The petals are free, 
but their edges often stick together for some way up from the base. 
The gyneceum is sessile or nearly so. Hence, 
to find characters peculiar to the genus we must 
turn our attention elsewhere. In the fruit alone will 
such be found. It forms a flattened pod, straight or 
curved edgewise, as the pericarp is thin or thick and 
woody. At maturity the marginal sutures persist 
(fig. 20), while the valves separate into as many 
joints as there are seeds. The lines of demarcation 
are transverse and very sharp; and at each line the 
two walls of the endocarp touch, the pericarp forming 
as many rectangular segments, usually transversely 
elongated and persisting around the seeds, which . 
they envelope completely. Hach seed contains 
within its coriaceous coats a large exalbuminous 
embryo. Lntada consists of ten or twelve species® of 
tropical plants, of which one-third belong to Africa 
and another to America; while one species, Z. 
scandens, Brntu.,' is naturalized on the coasts of all 
warm countries. The genus consists of shrubs, 
often climbing and holding on by tendrils repre- 
senting the terminal leaflets of their bipinnate leaves; these are not 
glandular, and possess two lateral stipules. The flowers, herma- 
phrodite or polygamous, form slender spikes, terminal or axillary, 
solitary or geminate, or even collected at the ends of the branches 
Entada polystachya. 
Fie. 20. 
Fruit. 
1 Bentu., loc. cit.—Watp., Rep., v. 587.— i. 75.—Ricu., Guitn. & Perr, Fi. Seneg. 
Tent., i. 
Mimosa dolabriformis Roxs., Pl. Coromand., 
i. t. 100. 
2 Apans., Fam. des Pl. ii. 318.—DC., 
Mém. Légum., 419, t. 61, 62; Prodr., ii. 424.— 
Enpu., Gen. n. 6832.—B. H., Gen., 589, u. 
374.—Gigalobium P. Br. Jamaic., 362.— 
Pursatha U., Fl. Zeyl., 644—Adenopodia 
Prest., Epimel., 206. 
3 Jaca, Amer, t 183, fig. 93.—WieuT 
& Any., Prodr., i. 267.—Mig., Fl. Ind.-Bat,, 
233.—H. By., in Adansonia, vi. 
208.—Harv. & Sonp., Fl. Cap., ii. 276.~— 
Watp., Rep., i. 858; v. 578; Aum, ii. 450; 
iv. 616. 
4B. Gigalobium DC., Mém. Légum., 12; 
Prodr., n. 1.—H. Pursetha DC., loc. cit., 
n. 2.—H. monostachya DC., loc. cit, n. 3. 
—WMimosa scandens Sw., Obs., 389.—Roxs., 
Cat., 40.—M. Entada W., Spec. iv. 1041,— 
Entada Ruerp, Hort. Malab,, ix. t. 77. 
