Ptbrolobium.] LEGTIMINOSM. 305 



the calyx. Stamens 10, free, declinate, exserted ; anthers oblong, 

 versatile. Ovary sessile, 1-ovuled; style filiform; stigma small, 

 terminal. Pod indehiscent, samaroid, with a large horny oblique 

 terminal wing. — Species 7, inhabiting Trop. Asia, China, Australia 

 and Africa 



P. indicum, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i„ 246 ; F. B. I. ii, 259 ; Prain in Journ.. 

 As. Soc. Beng. LXVl (1897), part ii 473. P. lacerans, Wall. ;iW. Sf A. Prod. 

 283. Csesalpinia lacerans, Roxh. Fl. Ind. ii, 267. 



Branches slender, finely downy, armed with many strong recurved 

 prickles. Finnce 4-8 pairs ; leajiets 6-8 pairs, sessile, | in. long, ohtuse, 

 membranous, senitive, glabrous, pale-green ; common petiole with 

 usually a pair of prickles at the base ; rachis with 2 recurved prickles 

 on the underside between each pair of pinnge, aid a single incurved one 

 on the upper. Racemes 2-3 in. long, from the axils of the terminal 

 leaves only ; pedicels |-| in., spreading, finely downy. Calyx ^-^ in.,- 

 glabrous, lowest sepal longest. Corolla yellow, not showy, as long- 

 as the lowest sepal. Stamens bearded below. Pod I5-II- in. including 

 the large membranous obliquely terminal wing. 



Dehra Dun (King). Distbib. S. India. 



Suborder III.— Mimosess. 



Trees or shrubs, rarely herbs. Leaves 2-pinnate, rarely simply 

 pinnate. Flowers small, regular, usually in globose heads or cylindric 

 spikes, 2-sexual, or rarely polygamous. Sepals valvate, usually 

 connate in a 5-lobed tube. Petals 6, valvate, usually connate below. 

 Stamens definite or indefinite, free or 1-adelphous, usually exserted ;, 

 anthers versatile. Ovary free at the base of the calyx. Seed» 

 usually albuminous. 



Stamens definite. 



Anthers gland-tipped (Tribe XIII. 

 Adenanthebe^). 



Herbs with flowers in small heads 65. Neptunia. 



Trees or shrubs, flowers in 

 racemes or spikes. 



Flowers in panicled racemes. 

 A large unarmed tree . 66. Adenantheba, 



Flowers in cylindrical spikes. 

 Thorny trees or shrubs. 

 Flowers all 2-sexual. 

 Pod dehiscent. A tree 

 armed with conical 

 prickles . . .67. Piptadbnia. 



