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pinnae, spikes globose axillary peduncled, legumes 
shell -shaped. 
Mimosa cyolocarpa, Jacq. Fran. t. 34. f. 1. — Inga, Willd. 
Spec. IV. 102G. 
HAB. Near the Spanish-Town Bridge. 
FL. March. 
A tree, 30-40 feet in height; branches erect. Pinnae usu- 
ally 5-7-paired, and the leaflets 24-paired. Peduncles axil- 
lary, 4—5 together, about 2 inches in length, terete, minutely 
puberulous, bearing a number of greenish yellow sessile flowers 
in a head. Calyx 5-fid, with the teeth obscure, minutely pu- 
berulous. Corolla twice the length of the calyx, 5-fid, with 
the divisions linear, obtuse. Filaments numerous, more than 
twice the length of the corolla, monadelphous at the base. 
Legume shell-shaped, large, about 2 inches in breadth, tumid 
at the situation of the seeds ; pulp saponaceous: seeds 10-14, 
oblong, compressed, of a chesnut colour with an oblong black 
spot on each side. 
The pulp contained in the pods of this species is employed in 
the Caraccas as a substitute for soap in washing clothes. 
5. Inga fragrans. Sweet-smelling Inga. 
Pinnae 10-paired, leaflets 40-paired lineari-oblong 
obtuse unequilateral at the base glabrous, common 
petiole with an oblong glandule an inch from the 
insertion, and a round one between the terminal pair 
of pinnae, panicles terminal leafy, flowers subsessile 
12-20 in a head. 
HAB. Port-Royal mountains. Below Moccha and Chester- 
field works. 
FL. August. 
A tree, 20-30 feet in height, with spreading branches. 
Leaves alternate, bipinnate : pinnae 3^ inches in length, 10- 
paired: leaflets 39-paired, sub-petiolulated, lineari-oblong, ob- 
tuse, unequilateral at the base, deep green glabrous and shining 
above, paler and minutely ciliated and puberulous along the 
mid-nerve beneath, about 4 lines in length : common petiole 
about 8 inches in length, channelled above, with an oblong glan- 
dule I an inch from the insertion, and a roundish glandule 
between the terminal pair of pinna}. Peduncles axillary and 
terminal, forming together a leafy panicle, angulose: branches 
of the peduncles short (fd of an inch in length), each bearing 
12-20 white fragrant subsessile flowers in a head. Calyx mi- 
nutely 5-dentate. Corolla infundibuliform, 5-fid, greenish : 
divisions oblongo-ovate, subacute. Stamens 20, more than 
