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CALYCI FLORAE. 
biglobosa 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. I. — Inga flore 
albo fimbriato, fructu dulci, Plum. Gen. 13. ic. 25 Mimosa 
Inga, Swartz, Obs. 388. — Inga vera, Willd. 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-el lip- 
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 
