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10-25, with anthers glandulose at the apex. Legume 
compressed, distinctly articulated, with the valves 
frequently on maturity separating into 2 membranes ; 
joints 1 -seeded ; costa) persistent : seeds thick ; coty- 
ledons fleshy, unchanged during germination, and 
enclosed within the spermodermium under the ground. 
— De Cand. 
Name, from zvra.ro g strung , from the joints of the legume 
being, as it were, strung together. 
1. Entada gigalobium. Cocoon . 
Leaves bipinnate terminating in a tendril, pinnae 
2-paired, leaflets 4-5-paired glabrous on both sides 
oblong emarginate, spikes supra-axillary, stamens 10. 
Phaseolus maximus perennis, folio decomposito, lobo maxi mo 
contorto, Sloane, Jam. 68. — Gigalobium, Browne, 362. — Mi- 
mosa scandens, Swartz, Obs. 389. — Acacia scandens, Willd. IV. 
1057. — Entada gigalobium, Be Cand. II. 424. 
HAB. Common in mountain woods. 
FL. August. 
Stem climbing to a great height, 100-150 feet in length : • 
branches angulose, glabrous. Leaves bi-pinnate : pinna) 2- 
paired : leaflets 4-5-paired, petiolulated, oblong, rounded and 
subemarginate at the apex, somewhat unequilateral at the base, 
delicately nerved and veined, glabrous, shining: common pe- 
tiole subterete, slightly channelled above, terminating in a long 
bifid tendril : partial petioles articulated on the common. Sti- 
pules subulate, appressed. An open glandular pore or foramen 
a little below and on each side of the insertion of the petiole. 
Spike supra-axillary (with a row of tufted glandules between 
the axil of the leaf and the insertion of the spike), very long 
(longer than the leaf) : rachis terete, occasionally terminating 
in a tendril : flowers numerous, small, very shortly pedicelled, 
each furnished at the insertion with a minute lanceolate bractea. 
Calyx minute, 5-dentate. Petals 5, oblong, small, green. 
Stamens 10 (according to Swartz 20-24), capillary, longer 
than the petals, twisted and hence apparently of the same 
length : anthers green, didymous, bearing a minute shortly pe- 
dicelled glandule. Pistil sometimes abortive, and its parts im- 
perfectly developed : ovary lineari-oblong-, glabrous : style pro- 
truding beyond thS twisted stamens, capillary, green, twisted : 
stigma white, obtuse. Legume very large, 6-8 feet in length, 
4 inches or more in breadth at the widest part, compressed, 
glabrous, of a brown colour, variously twisted, 2-valved, 10- 
12-seeded: seeds suborbiculate, compressed, 2 inches in breadth. 
This is a very common climber in woods on the North 
