Inga.) | ROSACER. 431 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the drier hill forests of the Martaban hills east of 
Tounghoo, at 4,000 to 7,000 ft. elevation.—Fl. March.—s —1. x SS. —= Metam 
INGA, Willd. 
with abruptly pinnate or bipinnate leaves. Stipules small and 
caducous, or rarely larger and persistent or spine-like. Flowers in 
4. I, dulcis, Willd, (Pithecolobium dulce, Bedd. Sylv. Madr. 
t. 188; Brand. For. Fl. 173).—Kway-tanyeng.—An evergreen tree 
(50—60+25—30+4—5), glabrous, or the very young branchlets 
greyish puberulous, the branchlets armed with short, straight, 
paired, stipulary spines; leaves abruptly bipinnate with a single 
pair of pinne only, on a slender }-1 in. long petiole, glabrous ; 
leaflets in a single pair, sessile, unequal, almost dimidiate-obovate 
to half-elliptical, blunt, very variable in size (from }-] in. long), 
chartaceous, glabrous, glaucescent ; flowers small, whitish, sessile, 
in small globular heads either sessile or on very short greyish 
puberulous peduncles forming greyish puberulous racemes in the 
axils of the leaves, the racemes usually collected into a terminal 
panicle ; calyx a line long, grey-tomentose; pods 4-5 in. long, linear- 
oblong, fleshy coriaceous, reddish and white, turgid, much twisted; 
seeds glossy black, covered with a thick, firmly spongy, rather dry 
but edible arillus. 
s a ee only in the larger stations, as Rangoon.—Fl. ©.S.; Fr. 
ROSACEA. 
with the petals at the base of the calyx-lobes. Ovary of 1, 2 or 
F ce Ae * m 
sometimes enclosed in the persistent calyx-tube, fleshy or dry, 
indehiscent or capsular, or the carpels collected on a fleshy or dry 
