JPithecolohium.'} l. legijminos^. (J. G, Baker.) 303 



Cultivated throughout India, but not indigenous. A native of Trop. America. 



A middle-sized tree, with glabrous leaves and branches. Spines minute, pointing 

 upwards. Leaflets approximated, oblique, obovate-oblong, rigidly subcoriaceous, 

 obtuse, 1-2 in. long. Heads dense, f-^ in. broad, shortly peduncled, on elongated 

 branches. Cal^x ^ in., funnel-shaped, grey-downy. Corolla ^ in. Pod 4-5 in. by 

 ^ in., 6-8-seeded, both sutures indented between the seeds, which are half enveloped 

 m a pulpy white edible aril. 



2. P. g^eminatum, Benth, in Hook, Land. Journ. 1844^ 202 ; spines 

 large, pinnae 2, leaflets 6-10, heads axillary, uppermost leaves much reduced, 



'flowers sessile. Bedd. FL Sylv. 96. Inga geminafa, W. ^ A. Prodr. 269. I. 

 flexuosa, Grah. in Wall. Cat, 5286. 



Cetxon and Western Peninsula, 



A low tree, with slender pubescent branches. Common petiole very short, with a 

 gland between the erecto-patent pinnae; pinnae 1-1^ in. long; leaflets bright green, 

 rigidly subcoriaceous, uppermost pair approximated, i-| in. long, obtuse, oblique- 

 obovate; lower smaller, lowest on inside absent. Peduncles slender, pubescent. 

 Calyx campanulate, under ^\ in. Corolla 3-4 times the length of the calyx. Stamens 

 jm. long. Pod not seen. 



,,, P. NiTinxjM, Benth, in Hook. Lond. Journ. 1844, 202 (Mimosa nitida, Vakl, Symb. 

 ^- 103. Acacia nitida, Willd. ; BO. Prodr, ii. 460. Inga Koenigii, W. # A. Prodr. 

 269), a plant unknown to recent botanists, is probably a form of this with 4 pinnae. 



3. p. umbellatum, Benth. in Hook, Land, Joum, 1844, 202 ; spines 



^inute, pinnoe 2-4, leaflets G-20, heads axillary, flowers stalked, pod sublignose. 



J^d, FL Sylv, 96. Inga umbellata, Willd'!'. DC. Prodr, ii. 439; W. ^ A, 



^odr. 270. I. corcondiana, DC Prodr. ii. 441; Wall. Cat. 6287. Mimosa 



^oellata, Va/il^ St/mb. ii. 103. M. concordiana, Boxb, Hort, Beng, 40; FL 

 -■tnd, ii. 656, 



Western Peninsula and Gkylon.— Distrib. Malay isles. 

 * -A- low tree, with the branchlets sometimes reduced to spines, but with the stipu- 

 i^ry spines often small and obscure. Leaf-mchis downy, with a gland between the 

 pinnae and an obscure one between each pair of leaflets ; leaflets subglabrous. rigidly 

 ^conaceous, ligulate-oblong, obtuse, i-1^ in. long, the uppermost pair broader 

 upwards, the lowest on the inner side mostly absent. Heads long-pedancled, few- 

 ?owe^d. Corolla J in., twice the length of the funnel-shaped calyx. Stamens f-1 

 p ^^^ very different to those of the other species, recurvato-falcate, indehiscent, 

 jointed, i-J in. thick, 6.8-seeded. 



Semes II. Clypearia. Spineless trees ^vitli coriaceous twisted pods 

 • opening from the lower sutiue. 



Leaflets few and but slightly oblique at the base. 



,. J- ^. big-eminum, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. 1844, 206; branclilets 

 anS '' P^^^cent, pinnte 3-4, leaflets 4-6, leaves with g-lands on the petiole 

 ^ at the base of each pinna and leaflet, calyx suhcampanulate, pod not lobed. 

 j,"'=; <5- Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 89 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 96. Mimosa bigemma, Lmn. ; 

 J^'/y'^b. ii. 103. M. lucida, lioxb. Hort. Beng. 40; Fl. Lrd.ii. 544 M. 

 ^onadeipha, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 644? Inga bigemina, Willd.; DC. Prodr. n. 

 r nr »• ^' ^' Prodr. 269. I. lucida, Wall. Cat. 5267 A. I annularis, Grah. 

 *" ^^all. Cat. 52G0. I. Wightiana, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5281. 



DisSf^^-f.^ Himalayas, ascendin 

 A £i^f *y isles, Philippines. 



Pinna and 



long-petioled ; leaflets subcoriaceous, glabrous above, slightly pubescent at first 



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