Inga.~] R08ACEAE. 435 



4. PITHECOLOBIUM BiGEMiNUM, Mart. ; F. B. I. ii. 303. Inga 

 bigemma, Willd. ; W. & A. 269. 



W. Ghats, in evergreen forests up to 3,000 ft. from Mysore 

 to Anamalais and Travancore, common in Wynaad ; W. 

 Coast, in S. Canara. 



A small tree with white flowers and broad flat pod curved 

 in a ring and orange-red inside with black seeds. Bark 

 smooth, brown, thin; wood light brown, soft. Vern. T>nn. 

 Kal pakku ; Mai. Mutha kolappan. 



5. PITHECOLOBIUM GRACILE, Bedd. in Madr. Journ. Sc. 1864, 

 44; Brand. Ind. Trees 274. 



W. Ghats, in the Wynaad forests at 3,000 ft. (Beddome, 



Gamble) ; Coorg (Bourne). 



A slender shrub or small tree with white flowers and long 



caudate points to the leaflets. 



Enterolobium Saman, Pram, the Rain tree is an introduction 

 from S. America, and is often grown as an avenue tree. Its 

 growth is very fast, but the wood is useless. 



86. Inga, Willd. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves simply pinnate. Flowers in spikes or 

 globose heads, peduncled. Calyx tubular or campanulate, shortly 

 3-5 -toothed. Petals combined in a tubular or funnel- shaped 

 corolla with 3-5 lobes, the lobes valvate. Stamens indefinite, 

 long-exserted, monadelphous ; anthers minute. Ovary sessile, 

 niany-ovuled ; style filiform ; stigma minute. Pod linear, coria- 

 ceous, straight or curved, the sutures usually thickened. Seeds 

 obovate or orbicular, compressed, sometimes with a pulpy aril. 

 INGA CYNOMETROIDES, Bedd.; F. B. I. ii. 306. Calliandra 

 cynometroides, Bedd. Fl. t. 317. 



W. Ghats, in the Hills of S. Travancore in evergreen forest 

 at 2,500-3,500 ft. (Beddome). 



A middle-sized glabrous tree with thorny branches, having 

 1 pair of leaflets 3-4 in. long, flowers with 3-lobed calyx and 

 corolla and flat glabrous coriaceous pod much thickened at 

 the sutures. 



Family LYI. ROSACEAE. 



Herbs, shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, 

 simple or compound ; stipules free or adnate to the petiole, 



