New Genera of American Plants

Plate 12.

I N G A.

Inga now a well-known genus of tropical trees and shrubs in the pea family, Mimosaceae is a genus of plant with a single-petaled original: "monopetalo" flower (A), funnel-shaped, which receives a certain fringed tube (B). From the calyx the green outer cup of the flower rises a pistil the seed-bearing organ (E) fixed to the back part of the flower (D) like a nail, which later develops into a fruit, or soft, fleshy pod (F), filled with irregular seeds (H I).
I have seen only one species of Inga.
Inga with a white, fringed flower and sweet fruit.
Inga is an American name according to Georg Marcgrave’s History of Plants, book 3, chapter 10. Marcgrave was a German naturalist who co-authored the first major study of Brazilian natural history in 1648

Plate 15.

M A N G L E S.

Mangles this refers to the Mangrove tree, likely the Red Mangrove, Rhizophora mangle is a genus of plant with a single-petaled flower (A), funnel-shaped and divided in many ways. From its calyx (C), which is also many-cleft, rises a pistil (D) fixed to the lowest part of the flower (B) like a nail, which later develops into a top-shaped fruit (F), fleshy and releasing a spindle-shaped seed (G); the head of this seed is hidden within the fruit itself and covered by a small fleshy cap (H).
I have seen only one species of Mangles.
Aquatic Mangles, with roundish and dotted leaves.
Mangles is an American name, according to the author Willem Piso, book 4, chapter 86, page 113. Piso was a Dutch physician who worked with Marcgrave in Brazil

Plate 14.

C O R D I A.

Cordia a genus of flowering plants in the borage family, many of which provide valuable timber is a genus of plant with a single-petaled flower (A), funnel-shaped and many-cleft, usually with turned-back repand edges. From its calyx (I) rises a pistil (C) fixed to the lowest part of the flower (B) like a nail, which later develops into a top-shaped, fleshy fruit (D), containing a small stone (F) divided into two compartments (G), in which an oblong kernel (H) is enclosed.
I have discovered only one species of Cordia.
Cordia with a walnut-like leaf and a purple flower.
Valerius Cordus was born in Simmern, Hesse, to his father Euricius Cordus, a most famous Physician and Poet, on February 18, 1515. He was the illustrator— the text cuts off mid-sentence at the end of the page