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pinna;, spikes globose axillary pecluncled, legumes 

 shell-sbaped. 



Mimosa cyclocarpa, Jacq. Frag. t. 34. f. 1. — Inga, Willd. 

 Spec. IV. 10:>6. 



HAB. Near tlie Spanish-Town Bridge. 



FL. March. 



A tree, 30-40 feet in height ; branches erect. Pinnae usu- 

 ally 5-7-paired, and the leaflets 24-paired. Peduncles axil- 

 lary, 4-5 together, about 2 inches in length, terete, minutely 

 puberulous, bearing a nitniber of greenish yellow sessile flowers 

 in a head. Calyx 5-fid, with the teeth obscure, minutely pu- 

 berulous. Corolla twice the length of the calyx, 5-fid, with 

 the divisions linear, obtuse. Filaments numerous, more than 

 twice the length of the corolla, monadelphous at the base. 

 Legume shell-shaped, large, about 2 inches in breadth, tumid 

 at the situation of the seeds; pulp saponaceous: seeds 10-14, 

 oblong, compressed, of a chesuut colour with an oblong black 

 spot on each side. 



The pulp contained in the pods of this species is employed in 

 the Caraccas as a substitute for soap in washing clothes. 



5. Inga fragrans. Sweet-smelling Inga. 



Pinnae 10-paired, leaflets 40-paired lineari-oblong 

 obtuse unequilateral at the base glabrous, common 

 petiole with an oblong glandule ^ an inch from the 

 insertion, and a round one between the terminal pair 

 of pinnae, panicles terminal leafy, flowers subsessile 

 12-20 in a head. 



HAB. Povt-Royal mountains. Below Moccha and Chester- 

 field works. 



FL. August. 



A tree, 20-30 feet in height, with spreading branches. 

 Leaves alternate, bipinnate : pinnae 3i inches in length, 10- 

 paired : leaflets 39-paired, sub-petiolulated, lineari-oblong, ob- 

 tuse, unequilateral at the base, deep green glabrous and shining 

 above, paler and minutely ciliated and puberulous along the 

 mid-nerve beneath, about 4 lines in length : common petiole 

 about 8 inches in length, channelled above, with an oblong glan- 

 dule I an inch from the insertion, and a roundish glandule 

 between the terminal pair of pinnae. Peduncles axillary and 

 terminal, forming together a leafy panicle, angulose : branches 

 of the peduncles short (id of an inch in length), each bearing 

 12-20 white fragrant subsessile flowers in a head. Calyx mi- 

 nutely 5-dentate. Corolla infundibuliforni. 5-fid, greenish : 

 divisions oblongo-ovate, subacute. Stamens 20, more than 



