58 INGA TRES-ELEGANTE. 
One hundred and thirty six species of Inga are enumerated by Don in his « ppe of Gardening 
and Botany, » and it would appear from our catalogues, that fully one hundred of these have never 
yet graced a British collection. We may, fore, hope that many, when introduced, will prove 
useful acquisitions to the stove or the greenhouse. 
The accompanying figure 
M. Jackson, of Kingston, from w 
ornamental qualities a propensity to disclose it 
ower induces us to regard every fugitive 
It bears a striking similar 
foliage, and the 
and more lustrou 
drooping tassel-like blossoms , 
s hue. 
The irritability common to the leaves of many species of Mimosa, 
sensitiva, is also displayed, though to a less striking degree, 
when grown in a warm stove. If the young leave 
was prepared from a specimen kindly furnished to us last February by 
om healthy plants may be procured. Uniting with its superior 
و‎ beauties 
blossom 
arity in its general aspect to J. 
though scarcely equal in size, 
gr es are pressed roughly by th 
SE current of air, or a sudden depression of temperature, 
, but soon d and raise themselves again 
b 
at a season when the general paucity. of 
it is still more valuable. 
however, much smaller 
shine with a deeper 
with a favourable eye, 
kermesina. It has, 
and especially M. pudica and 
in the plant under notice, M 
e hand, exposed to a 
they rapidly contract dud fold toge- 
to their usual position. When cultivated in the 
expan 
در‎ ei the leaflets never expand, even in the brightest and warmest days throughout the whole 
course of the winter se 
In its cultivation, 
the roots e pro 
favo Ee, 
and sand, fren with well r 
In winter it should be k 
ason 
the chief things to be thought of, are e selection of a suitable medium for 
vide a congenial atmosphere in the grow 
a suspension of vegetative activity. A light loam added to an bee ara proportion of en 
educed leaf-mould, may be used with propri 
perature is ar most popa during the summer season, and till 
t n the stove, where it may remain till May or June 
ing season, and afterwards conditions 
iety. A greenhouse tem- 
the autumn is far Ae à 
1 
It is ne to be a en of Mexico, in Loudon's « Hortus Britannicus, » and introduced to this 
country in 
The generic title is a South American name adopted by Marcgrav, a naturalist who wrote on the 
"y 
Natural History of Brazil, 
about the middle of the seventeenth centu 
INGA (CALLIANDRA?) TRES-ELEGANTE. 
INGA PULCHERRIMA. 
Erm. Nom américain de quelque espèce adoptée comme type de ce genre par ۰ 
Famille des Mimosacées $ Acaciées. — Monadelphie-Monandrie. 
CARACTERES GENERIQUES 
CARACTERES SPECIFIQUES 
Selon les eatalogues anglais (Loudon et 
Sweet’s Hort. Brit.), cette plante a été 
introduite en Europe du Mexique, sa pa- 
trie, dés 1822. Elle est aujourd’hui assez 
répandue dans les collections et cependant 
elle n’est décrite nulle part dans les ouvra- 
ges des botanistes; au moins, nous mavons 
pu la trouver dans le nombre de ceux 
que nous avons à notre disposition. Ainsi 
le Prodrome de De Candolle, le Reperto- 
rium de Walpers, la revue qu’a faite Ben- 
tham des Mimosacées dans le Journal of 
} voyez ci-dessus. 
Botany de Hooker, le Systema Vegetabi- 
lium de Sprengel, ete., la passent complé- 
tement sous silence. Cependant elle est en- 
core citée par Steudel (Nomenclator Bota- 
nicus) et par Heynhold (Nomencl. Botanicus 
hortensis 
C'est GE une tres belle plante 
qui, par son léger et aérien feuillage qua- 
dri- ou sex-bipenné (bipenné Aucr.!) par 
ses nombreuses et splendides fleurs d’un 
pourpre éclatant (les étamines), autant que 
nous en pouvons juger d’après la figure 
