308 CALYCIFLORJE. 



Mimosa Saman, Jacq. Frag. Bot. 5. t. 9. Inga Saman, 

 Wittd. IV. 1024. 



HAB. Common in Salt-ponds, St Catherine's. 



FL. April October. 



A spreading tree, 40-50 feet in height : branches at their 

 extremities angulose, velutino-pubescent. Leaves alternate, 

 bipinnate : pinnae 4-5-paired : leaflets of the terminal pinnae 6- 

 paired, diminishing gradually, so that those of the lowest pinnae 

 are only 2-paired ; the outermost pair of leaflets the largest ; 

 subsessile, rhomboideo-oblong,unequilateral, bluntly apiculated, 

 glabrous and shining above, incano-velutino-pubescent beneath : 

 common petiole anguloso-sulcated, pubescent, with a roundish 

 sessile depressed urceolate glandule between each pair of pinnae : 

 partial petioles subterete, with a sharp ridge above, pubescent, 

 bearing a small glandule between each pair of leaflets. Stipules 

 thickish, lanceolate, attenuated at the apex, blunt, deciduous. 

 Peduncles terminal, and in the axillae of the subterminal leaves, 

 4-8 together, 35 inches in length, subterete, anguloso-sulcated, 

 pubescent, each bearing a head of about 20 flowers. Flowers 

 crimson, subsessile, each furnished with a spathulate bractea, 

 hooded near the apex, deciduous. Calyx tubulose, infundibnli- 

 form, 5-fid, externally greenish and tomentulose; divisions 

 blunt. Corolla less than twice the length of the calyx, 5-fid, 

 tubulose, slit on one side, externally yellowish, tomentulose ; 

 divisions blunt. Stamens o>, more than twice the length of 

 the floral coverings, delicately capillary, monadelphous at the 

 base, tinged towards the apex with crimson : anthers very small. 

 Ovary linear, greenish, glabrous : style longer than the stamens, 

 tinged with crimson : stigma simple. Legume about 9 inches 

 in length, linear, compressed, of brownish-black colour, corru- 

 gated, shining ; sutures thickened : seeds each inclosed in a 

 pellicle, imbedded in a sweet amber-coloured gummy pulp, 

 about 20 in number, oblong, compressed, of a brownish colour. 



This is among the loftiest and most beautiful of its tribe. It 

 is originally a native of the Caraccas, but is now one of the 

 most common trees in Salt-ponds, the seeds having been brought 

 over by the Spanish cattle, which were formerly imported in 

 great numbers from the different parts of South America. 

 Horses, cattle, sheep, and indeed every description of stock 

 feed readily on the pods, and are usually collected under the 

 trees, on a windy day, waiting till they fall to the ground. The 

 tree itself affords a beautiful shade, and grows up very rapidly. 

 The wood is said to be very ornamental. 



5. Inga cyclocarpa. Shell-podded Inga. 



Pinnae 5-9-paired, leaflets 20-30-paired oblong 

 obtuse subdimidiate puberulous, a glandule below the 

 lowest and another between the 1-2 extreme pairs of 



