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‘GENUS LXIV. INGA. 
Polygamia Moneecia. Sex: Syst: 
Periv. The South American name of one of the species. 
Gen. Cuar. Trees or shrubs, usually unarmed: flowers spiked 
or gapitate: calyx 5-toothed : petals 5, united into a 5-cleft corolla : 
stamens numerous, protruded, monadelphous at the base, sometimes, 
for nearly their wee length : legume broadly-linear, compressed, 
1-eelled: seeds covered usually with pulp, sometimes with a pellicle 
or farinaceous matter, 
(1) E xyzocarpa. ( Dee.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 269.—Dee. prod, IE. p. 439. 
Syn. Mimosa xylocarpa, Roxb, fl. Ind. II. p. 5438.—Acacia 
xylocarpa, Willd. 
Engrav. Roxb. Cor. I. t. 100. 
Spec. Car. Tree unarmed: leaves conjugately pinnated, with 
a gland between the pinne: leaflets 2-4 pair, with an odd one on 
the outside below the pairs, ovate-oblong, acute, with a gland be- 
tween each pair: peduncles in pairs, axillary ; flowers | globose- 
capitate: legume ovate-oblong, hatchet-shaped, woody, many-seed~ 
ed: flowers small, white. 
Coromandel. Hilly parts of the Concan, ‘Tyavancore. Assam, 
Flowering in the hot season, ‘The timber is remarkably strong and 
durable. This has been raised into a new genus called Xylia, by: 
Bentham. See Hook. Jour. Bot. iy. p. 417. 
(2) I. picemina. (Willd.) 
Ident. W.& A, prod. I, p. 269.—Dec. prod. Il. p. 439. 
Syn. Mimosa bigemina, Linn.—M. lucida, Roxb. Jf. dnd, TE, 
Pp. 544. 
Engrav. Rheede Mal. VI. t. 12. 
Spec. Cuar. Tree unarmed: leaves conjugately or bipinnated : 
pinnz 1-2 pair, with a gland between each pair: }eaflets 2-3 pair, 
ovate-lanceolate, acuminated, shining, with a gland between each 
air: racemes panicled, terminal, many-flowered: flowers in smal] 
globose heads, white ; legumes spirally twisted. 
Concans. Travancore. Assam. Flowering in the hot season. 
(3) L. umpetnata. ( Willd.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I, p. 270.—Dee. prod. I, p. 439. 
Syn. I. concordiana, Dee. 1, c. P 441.—Mimosa umbellata, 
Pahl.—M, concordiana, Rozb. fi. Ind. TIL. p, 556, 
