428 HORTUS JAMAlCENSISs. . job's 



INGA-TREE. MIMOSA. 



Ci.. 2i, on. 1. Pdygavna monaycia^ K.vT. oK. Lomcntaceoc..- 

 Gen. cuAB. aS'c'c Cacoons, p. 137. 



INGA, 



jlj'bor stliqvxisa Bras.il icnsis foUis piiniattf, costa m-edia viembran!/7'- ' 

 tttrinq ; extiniti'ius aLili. Sionin-. v. 2, p. .5.S, t. 1S3, i'. i. J'oiiix 

 vuijorihus oiatis, po: pinnas alalas ct ^landulotas dUj ositis-i Jiunbus 

 st'junciis. Browne, p. 253. . 



Unarmed ; leaves pinnate, five-paired ; petiole margined, jointed. 

 This tree is from ten to twenty feet in height; the trunk and branches unarmed-; - 

 ieaves pinnate, alternate ; leaflets five-paired, sesshe,.conneeted bv a margined sulm- 

 late conmiou petiole, ovate-lanceolate, generally entire, nerved, veined, smooth ; 

 gjands solitary, between each pan' of leaves ; peduncles terminating, many-flowered ; 

 ilowers in a short spike, large. Caly>. oue-leafed, five-tooihed ; coroiia twice as large 

 as ilie calyx, five-toothed ; greenish-white: filaments nionadclphous, verv long ; an- 

 thers nuuute ; germ oblong ; style filiform ; stigma blunt: legume long, angular- 

 compressed, with the sutures two-keeled, it grows on the banks of risers, flowering 

 early in the spring. .SV. This tree has several crooked branches, covered witli a \\hite 

 sn.ooth bark, hanging down to the ground; the leaves have an odd leaflet at the end, 

 larger than the otiiers; each pod contains a great many quadrangular soft peas, lying 

 close together in a white sweet pulp, which is eaten by negroes. Sloane. Browne 

 says this tree is pretty frequent in St. Mary's. 



Hee Cacoons -~Oash.\w Gu.m-Arabic Nephritic-Tkee Sensitive Plant *- 



AV'iLU Tamarind. 



JOB'S TEARS. OLYRTA, 



Cl, 21, OR. 3. Monoecia triandna. fs^AT. or. Gramma, 

 GF^f CHAU. Male flowers below the females. Cal.x a two-valved, one-flowereflfe^ 

 glume, valves equal, lanceolate ; outer sub-ventricose, terminating in a capillary, 

 .straight, even^ awn; inner narrower, acute, folded in on both sid'es ; there is ac 

 corolla ; but a two-leaved very small nectar}', with ob-ovate, sub-emar"-inate> 

 membranaceous, erect, leaflets ; the stamei.s are three capillacy very short fila= 

 iiients, with linear anthers, acute at botii ends, females solitary, terminating oa 

 the same panicle, much largei" than tlie males. Calyx a glume, two-valved, one- 

 flowered, large, spreading; valves almost equal,^ ovate, concave, nerved; outer 

 terminating in a long awl-shaped, jsub-flexuose awn, vihose at battom ; inner nar- 

 rower, acuminate ; the corol!a two-valved glume, much shorter than the calyx, 

 eoi'iaceous, shining,, awnless, blunt; outer much longer ;riectary three-leaved, 

 very small; leaflets ob-ovate, membranaceous, erect; the pistil has an oblon 

 ggrm, a filitbrm style., ahuost the length of the calyx, and a capillary pubescent .^ 

 stigma.; the pericarp a glume of the. corolla, involving, fuiiing; the seed ovatCs. ' 

 TJtterc are oivly two species, both natives of Jamaica^ 



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