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slightly unequal, imbricate with frilly margins, subequal, bright yellow; stamens 10, free,
the filaments curved; pods, 5 to 11.5 cm long and 2 to 2.7 cm wide, 2-valved, oblong-
lanceolate, flattened, straight or curved, slightly winged along both margins, copper-
colored, red-brown or brown when ripe, blackening eventually but persistent on the tree,
veiny on the sides, indehiscent; seeds, 1 to 4, transverse, oblong, flattish, pale brown.
Planted ornamental tree on Military Ridge. 5, 6.
Samanea saman (Jacq.) Merr. "rain tree", " monkeypod tree"
syns. Albizia saman (Jacq.) F. v. Muell. ; Mimosa saman Jacq. ; Enterolobium
saman (Jacq.) Prain ex King; Pithecellobium saman (Jacq.) Benth.; Inga
saman (Jacq.) Willd.
Recent introduction. Trop. America. Rare. Large to massive tree, 7 to 25 m high,
the trunk up to 1 m in diameter, the crown rounded, usually broader than tall; leaves,
bipinnate, with 2 to 9 pairs of pinnae, each with 2 to 10 pairs of leaflets; leaflets, 2 to 8
cm long and 1 to 4.5 cm wide, the distal ones larger than the proximal ones, ovate to
obovate or oblong-elliptic, asymmetric, subsessile, shining above, downy beneath, folding
(closing) in late afternoon for the night and in cloudy or rainy weather; flowers, in
axillary long-pedunculate heads, the central flower larger than the others; calyx, 6 to 7.5
mm long, short lobed; corolla, up to 13 mm long, petals connate up to the middle, pink
with greenish or yellowish lobes; stamens many, 2 to 4 cm long, basally connate,
exserted, white proximally, shading to pink or crimson distally; pods, 9 to 24 cm long,
1.3 to 2.2 cm wide and 1.5 to 2.5 mm thick, straight or slightly curved, thick but
compressed, semi-succulent, internally septate, with thickened sutures, brown turning
black when mature, indehiscent, containing sweet, sticky brown pulp within; seeds 15 to
20, exarillate, brown. Ornamental tree in home gardens on Meneng Terrace and at
Buada. 5, 6, 7.
Vigna marina (Burm.) Merr. "beach pea"
erekogo (N); te kitoko (K); saketa (T)
syns. V. lutea (Sw.) A. Gray; Phaseohis marinus Burm.; Dolichos luteus Sw.
Indigenous. Pantropical. Common. Prostrate, creeping, sometimes climbing,
subglabrous, weak-stemmed, long-trailing herbaceous perennial vine; leaves, alternate,
trifoliate; stipules, 2 to 3 lnln long, ovate to lanceolate, inconspicuously bilobate at base,
early caducous; petioles, 5 to 10 cm long; leaflets, 4 to 10 cm long and 3 to 8 cm wide,
broadly ovate or suborbicular to obovate, apex rounded to emarginate, base obtuse, 3-
nerved from base, midrib branched upward, lateral leaflets somewhat oblique, incmspicu~dy~ap~~~asean~~ho~acesbut
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flowers, 1.5 to 2 cm long, short-pedicellate, in few-flowered racemose clusters crowded
distally on axillary peduncles, up to 15 cm or longer; petals and stamens, pale to bright
yellow, the standard usually 12 to 14 lnln in diameter, obovate, the keel not much longer
than other petals, incurved for about half a complete turn or less; pods, 4 to 8 cm long