is dismembered very judiciously by Mr. Bentham, from the over- 
loaded genus, Jaga, and includes such as, altogether natives of 
the American continent, resemble Inga in the flowers, and Acacia 
in the fruit. Sixty species are described by Mr. Bentham, 1. c. 
Descr. A straggling shrub, three to four feet high, with 
spreading zigzag branches, of which the younger ones are downy. 
Leaves bipimnate, primary pinne of one pair, and each pinna 
bearing three, obovate, oblique, rather large leaflets ; of these three, 
two are opposite and terminal, and one solitary and lateral. Ra- 
chis hairy. Stipules subulate, hooked. Peduncles short, axillary, 
solitary, having a single head of flowers, very small and compact 
in bud, but soon expanding into very beautiful crested tufts, of 
which the small yellow calyx and corolla are very much concealed 
by the copious long stamens; each flower giving out a large 
pencil, as it were, of scarlet hairs, tipped with the anthers, which 
latter are at first also red, then yellow from the copious pollen. 
Calyz urceolate, downy and slightly glandular, its teeth obtuse. 
Corolla funnel-shaped, three times as long as the calyx ; the teeth 
ovate. Svamens an inch and a half long, monadelphous at the 
base. Pistil, as far as I have observed, wanting. 
Fig. 1. Calyx and corolla with the base of the filaments :—magnified, 
