750 



ERYTHRTNA spcciosa. 



Shoivy Erythrina. 



DIADCLPHIA DECASDRIA, 



Nat.ord. Legumtnos.e. Juss. qen.\Mo. Sect. F. 

 ER YTHRINA. Svpra vol. 4. foL :315. 



E. speciosa, foliis ternatis subtus aculoatis, pctiolis inermilus, caulo acule- 

 ate. IJort. Kew. cd. 2\ 4. 252, 



E. speciosa. And. hot. rep. 443. 



Caulis aculcatus, viridh, ylabcrrimus. Folia iernata, longi$$ime prtio- 

 lata, cum canlc genkxdata; stipula^ jmrvce, obovato-Ianceolalce, dimidiate, 

 glabcijim<e; petiolus teres, glaberrimus, bad incrassatiis colore intcnsluie, 

 foliolis lonyior. Foliola magim, plana, glabra, acinmnafa, nervis pn'mariis 

 aculeatis, marglne sitmaia, cinn petiolo comrmmi genictdis teretdms, afro- 

 viridibus, pubc fcrrugineo obteclls, bast utrituj.ac 1-2 glanduhm, convafa: 

 lateralia rhombea,incerjuilatcralia; tcrminalc lati-ovatum subU Uobum. 



We had no opportunity of describing the flowers of this 

 species of Euythrina. In elegance and beauty of blossom 

 it is superior to most of its congeners^ with tlic exception 

 of the much more common Ervthkina Crista GallL 



The plant is of rather unfrequent occurrence in collec- 

 tions. Our drawing was made from a plant wliich llowered 

 in the collection of Comtesse de Vandes, at Bayswater. 



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Native of the West Indies, and introduced to this 



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country, upon the authority of the Hortus Kc'\rensis, in 

 1805. 



Stem prickly, green, and quite smooth. Leaves ternate, 

 upon very long stalks, jointed with the stem ; stipules small, 

 obovatc-lanceolate, halved, quite smooth ; stalk round, 

 smooth, thickened at the base, and of a darker colour 

 there; longer than the leaflets, which are large, flat, smootli, 

 and drawn to a point, with the "principal nerves prickly; 

 sinuose at the edge, and united with the common stalk l^y 

 means of round and dark green joints, whicli are covered 

 sparingly with a ferruginous pubescence, and have each one 

 or two glands on each side of their base ; the lateral leaflets 

 are rhomboid, and with sides of unequal breadth ; tlic ter- 

 minal one is broadly ovate and obsolctely 3-lobed. 



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