306 CALYCI FLORAE, 



BIOLOBOSA in the Botanic Garden at Bath. Name, of American 

 origin, first adopted by Marcgraaf. 



1. Inga vera. Common Inga. 



Petiole winged, leaflets 4-5-jugate obovato-oblong 

 acuminate membranaceous glabrous, spikes axillary 

 few-flowered, corolla lanato-sericeous, legumes sul- 

 cated. 



Arbor siliquosa Brasiliensis, foliis pinnatis costa media mem- 

 branulis extantibus, Sloane, II. 58. t. 183. f. 1. Inga flore 

 albo fimbriato, fructu dulci, Plum. Gen. 13. ic. 25 Mimosa 

 Inga, Swartz, Obs. 388. Inga vera, Wfttd. Sp. PI. IV. 1010. 



HAB. Banks of Rivers. Common in the neighbourhood of 

 Bath, St Thomas in the East. 



FL. Spring. 



A tree, 20-30 feet in height. Leaflets 3-4 inches in length, 

 the upper ones the largest, parallelly veined, glabrous, shining 

 above. A large sessile cup-shaped glandule between every 

 pair of leaflets. Flowers spiked. Calyx 5-toothed. Corolla 

 twice the length of the calyx. Stamens many, monadelphous, 

 much longer than the corolla, capillary, white : anthers minute. 

 Legume pubescent, with the seeds lodged in a white sweet 

 edible pulp. 



2. Inga unguis-cati. Four-leaved Inga. 



Spines stipulary straight, leaflets subrotundo-ellip- 

 tic subdimidiate rounded at the apex glabrous, a glan- 

 dule at the division of the petiole and also between 

 the leaflets, racemes terminal, flowers sessile crowded, 

 legumes twisted. 



Acacia arborea major spinosa, pinnis quatuor, siliquis varie 

 intortis, Sloane, II. 56. Mimosa fruticosa, foliis ovatis binato- 

 binatis, seminibus atro-nitentibus, Browne, 252. M. unguis- 

 cati, Swartz, Obs. 389 Inga, Willd. IV. 1006. 



HAB. Common, in the fences and thickets, in the neighbour- 

 hood of Spanish-Town. 



FL. End of the year. 



A shrubby tree, about 10 feet in height : branches terete, 

 ash-coloured, sometimes unarmed; branchlets flexuose, glabrous. 

 Thorns stipulary, short, straight. Leaves bipinnate: leaflets 

 1-paired sessile, very obtuse or subemarginate at the apex, 

 nervose, glabrous : petiole subalate, channelled above. A 

 minute glandule at the extremity of the common, and another 

 at that of the partial petioles. Racemes terminal, of 2-3 sim- 

 ple branches. Peduncle angulose, minutely puberulous. Flow- 

 ers greenish yellow, sessile, furnished at the insertion with a 



