Inocarpus
(from is, inos, a fibre, and karpos, a fruit; in reference to the fibrous envelopes). ORD. Leguminosae. A genus comprising three species of stove evergreen trees, natives of the Pacific islands and the Indian Archipelago. Flowers yellow, in axillary spikes; calyx tubular; petals five. Leaves simple (one-foliolate), coriaceous, penninerved; petioles very short. The species require a compost of loam and peat. Cuttings of the half-ripened shoots will root in sand, in heat.
I. edulis (edible). fl. white; petals five, united to form a short tube. Summer. fr. a one-seeded fibrous pod. l. alternate. h. 20ft. South Sea Islands, 1793.