PitTiecolobium.'] L. LEGUMINOS.^. (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. Calyx ^ 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 

 ill a pulpy white edible aril. 



2. P. geminatum, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. 1844, 202 ; spines 

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

 flowers sessile. Bedel Fl. Sylv. 96. Inga geminata, W. $ A. Prodr. 269. I. 

 flexuosa, Grah. in WaU. Cat. 5286. 



CEYLON and WESTERN PENINSULA. 



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

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

 Tigidly subcoriaceous, uppermost pair approximated, -f in. long, obtuse, oblique- 

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

 "Calyx campanulate, ur'der ^ in. C&rolla 3-4 times the length of the calyx. Stamens 

 - in. long. Pod not seen. 



! * P. NITIDUM, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. 1844, 202 (Mimosa nitida, Vahl, Synth. 

 ii. 103. Acacia nitida, Willd. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 460. Inga Kcenigii, 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. Lond. Journ. 1844, 202 ; spines 

 minute, pinme~2-'J leaflets "6-20, heads axillary, flowers stalked, pod sublignose. 

 Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 96. Inga umbellata, Willd. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 439 ; W. $ A. 

 Prodr. 270. I. corcondiana, DC. Prodr. ii. 441 ; Wall. Cat. 5287. Mimosa 

 umbellata, Vahl, Symb. ii. 103. M. concordiana, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 40 ; Fl. 

 Ind. ii. 556. 



WESTERN PENINSULA and CEYLON. DISTRIB. Malay isles. 



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

 lary spines often small and obscure. Zm/-rachi8 downy, with a gland between the 

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

 coriaceous, ligulate-oblong, obtuse, -! in. long, the uppermost pair broader 

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

 flowered. Corolla, \ in., twice the length of the funnel-shaped calyx. Stamens f-1 

 in. Pod very different to those of the other species, recurvato-falcate, indehiscent, 

 jointed, - in. thick, 6-8-seeded. 



SERIES II. Clypearia. Spineless trees with coriaceous twisted pods 

 opening from the lower suture. 



* Leaflets few and but slightly oblique at the base. 



4. P. big-eminum, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. 1844, 206 ; branchlets 

 slightly pubescent, pinnae 2-4, leaflets 4-6, leaves with glands on the petiole 

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

 JDalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 89 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 96. Mimosa bigemina, Linn. ; 



Vahl, Symb. ii. 103. M. lucida, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 40 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 544. M. 

 monadelpha, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 544? Inga bigemina, Willd. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 

 439 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 269. I. lucida, Wall. Cat. 5267 A. I. annularis, Grah. 

 in Wall. Cat. 5269. I. Wightiana, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5281. 



EASTERN HIMALAYAS, ascending to 3000 ft., WESTERN PENINSULA and CEYLON. 

 DISTRIB. Malay isles, Philippines. 



A tall tree, with subterete branchlets with thin brown pubescence. Pinnce and 

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



