Monkeypod

Pithecellobium dulce (Roxb.) Benth. Lond. Joiirn. Bot 3: 199. 1844.
Mimosa dulcis Roxb. PI. Corom. 1: 67. 1795.
Inga dulcis Willd. Sp. PI. 4: 1005. 1806.
Inga pungens H. & B.; Willd. Sp. PI. 4: 1004. 1806.
Mimosa pungens Poir. in Lam. Encycl. Suppl. 1: 36. 1810.
Inga javana DC. Prodr. 2: 436. 1825.
Acacia obliquifolia M. & G. Bull. Acad. Brux. 10': 317. 1843.
Feuilleea dulcis Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 184. 1891.
A tree, 4-16 m. high, or shrubby, the twigs glabrous or pubescent. Stipular spines 0.4-16 mm. long, ascending, or often wanting; petioles slender, about 3 cm. long or much shorter; pinnae 1 pair; leaflets 1 pair, oblong to ovate or obovate, obtuse, glabrous or somewhat pubescent, 1-5 cm. long; heads small, panicled; peduncles 0.5-2.5 cm. long, pubescent; flowers whitish, densely canescent; calyx about 2 mm. long; coroUa 3-4 mm. long; stamentube short, included; legume curved or coiled, glabrate, 8-12 mm. wide, compressed.
Type locality: Coromandel, East Indies.
Distribution: Sonora, Lower California and Chihuahua to Colombia and Venezuela. Widely planted in tropical and subtropical regions and locally naturalized.