N. 0. LEGUMIN08.E. 
491 
437. Neptunia oleracea, Lour., h.f.b.i., u. 285, 
Roxb. 420. 
Vern : — P&ni-najak ; pani-lajak (B.); Laj-alu (Patna) ; Pani- 
lajak (Bomb.) ; Sunday-kiray (Tam.) ; Niru-tal-vapu, nidrayung 
(Tel.) ; Nitti-todda-vaddi (Malay.). 
Habitat : — In tanks, throughout the greater part of India. 
An annual herb, without prickles, stout, wide-creeping, rarely 
throwing out suberect branches ; producing copious fibrous 
rootlets from the same nodes that bear the leaves and pendun- 
cles. Stems almost entirely prostrate. Leaves bipinnate, with 
persistent stipules and numerous small strap-shaped, sensitve, 
membranous leaflets. Pinnae 4-0, 2-3in. long. Rachis glandless ; 
leaflets glabrous, obtuse, 16-30, £-|in. long. Peduncles ascend- 
ing, \ 1ft, ; bracts small ovate, sub-obtuse. Sterile flowers 
numerous. Staminodes i-£in., strap-shaped, yellow. Corolla 
2 5 in. Pod oblique, oblong, i-lin. long, rostrate, dry, soon dehis- 
cing by the upper suture, 6-10-seeded. 
Use : — Used as refrigerant and astringent (Irvine.) 
438. Entada seandens, Bth., h.f.b.i., ii. 287. 
Syn . : — Mimosa seandens, Linn., Roxb. 420. 
Vern. Gila-gach V B.); Garbi, kardal, khairi (B.); Garambi, 
gardul (Bomb.); Geredi (Uriya); Pangra (Nepal) ; Taktokhejem 
(Lepcha) ; Parinkaka-vully (Mah). 
The seeds ; Pitpapra (Bomb.). 
Habitat : — Central and Eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Sikkim, 
and Western Peninsula. 
A very large, woody climber, stems angled and much 
twisted spirally. Dark-brown, rough. Wood dark brown 
when dry, in alternate layers of woody and bark tissue. Bran- 
dis describes the wood structure more accurately thus “ The 
wood to a gieat extent consists of thin walled parenchyma, in 
which are embedded longitudinal strands of vessels, sieve-tubes, 
and wood fibres.” Leaves tripinnate, common petioles ending 
in long, woody, bifid tendrils ; pinnm stalked opposite, two 
