EitJiBcolohium.'} t. ieguminosje, (J, Gr. Baker.) ' 303 



Cultivated .throughout India, but hot indigenous. A native of Trop. America. 



A jniddle-sized tree, -with glabrous leaves and branches. Spines minute, pointing 

 upwards. Leaflets approximated, oblique, obovate-oblong, rigidly Bubcoriaceous, 

 obtuse, 1_2 in. long. _ Heads dense, f-J in. broad, shortly peduncled, on elongated 

 branches. Calyx ^ in., funnel-shaped, grey-downy. Corolla i in. Fed 4-5 in. by 

 i in., 6-8-seeded, both sutures indented between the seeds, whjch are half enveloped 

 in a pulpy white edible aril. 



2. P. ^emlnatum, Benth. in Hook. Land. Journ. 1844, 202 ; spines 

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

 flowers sessile. Sedd. Fl. Sylv. 96, Inga geminata, W. ^ A. Prodr. 269. I. 

 flexuosa, Cfrah. in Wall. Cat. 6286. 



Ceixon and Western Peninsula.. 



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

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

 -jigidly subcoriaeeous, uppermost pair approximated, A-| in. long, obtuse, oblique- 

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

 Calyx campanulate, under jj in. Corolla 3-4 times the length of the calyx. Stamens 

 ^ in. long. Pod not seen. 



! ' P. NiTiDUM, Benth. in Hook. Land. Journ. 1844, 202 (Mimosa nitida, VoM, Symh. 

 ii. 103. Acacia nitida, WUld. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 460. Inga Koenigii, W. ^ A. Prodr. 

 269), a plant unknown to recent botanists, is probably a form of this with 4 pinnse. 



3. P. umbellatum, Benth. in Sook. Lond. Journ. 1844, 202 ; spines 

 minute, pinnse 2-4, leaflets 6-20, heads axillary, flowers stalked, pod sublignose. 

 Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 96. Inga umlieUata, Willd. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 439 ; W. Sf. A. 

 Prodr. 270. I. corcondiana, BC. Prodr. ii. 441 ; Wall. Cat. 6287. Mimosa 

 umbellata, Vahl, Symh. ii. 103. M. concordiana, Roxh. Hort. Beng. 40; Fl. 

 Ind. ii. 656. 



Western Peninstila and Okyion. — Distrib. Malay isles. 



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

 lary spines often smaU and obscure, ico/'-rachis downy, with a gland between the 

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

 coriaceous, ligulate-oblong, obtuse, ^IJ 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 |-1 

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

 Jointed, j-j in. thick, 6-8-seeded. 



Seeies n. Clypearla. Spineless trees with coriaceous tvdsted pods 

 -opening from the lower suture. 



* Leaflets few and hut slightly oblique at the base. 



4. P. bigpeminum, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. 1844, 206 ; branchlets 

 slightly pubescent, pinnse 2-4, leaflets 4r-6, leaves with glands' on the petiole 

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

 -Dalz. Sr Gibs. Bomb. FL 89 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv, 96. Mimosa bigemina, Binn. ; 



Vahl, Symh. ii. 103. M. lucida, Boxb. Sort. Beng. 40 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 644. ,M. 

 monadelpha, Soxh. Fl. Ind. ii. 644? Inga bigemina, Willd.; DC. I¥odr.Ji. 

 -439; W..^ A. Prodr. 269. I. lucida, Wall Cat. 6267 A. I. annularis, Cfrah. 

 in Wall. Cat. 5269. I. Wightiana, Grah. in Wall. Coi. 6281. 



Eastern Himaiatas, ascending to 3000 ft. Western Peninsula and Ceylon.— 

 DiSTEiB. Malay isles, Philippines. 



A tail tree, with subterete branchlets with thin brown pubescence. Pinncs and 

 Heaves long-petioled; leaflets subcoriaeeous, glabrous .above, slightly pubescent at first 



