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ERYTHRINA* poianthes ; var. subinermis 



Thornless naked-flowering Coral-tree. 







DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. Leguminosje Juss. (Introduction to the natural system of 

 Botany, p. 86.) 



ERYTHRINA.—Suprcl, vol A. fol. 313. F Jr 



E. poianthes. Supra, fol. 1246. 



fi subinermis ; foliis floribusque contemporaneis, caule subincrmi 



E. poianthes. Lowe in bot. man. 3234? ^ 



We can scarcely doubt that the plant from which the 

 accompanying figure was taken, and that illustrated by 

 Mr. Lowe in the Botanical Magazine, are the same ; neither 

 can we hesitate to consider both of them materially dif- 

 ferent from the species figured at fol. 1246 of this work. 



In the latter the flowers appear without the leaves, and 

 the stems are extremely prickly : in the kind now repre- 

 sented we find the flowers and leaves accompanying each 

 other, and the stem scarcely producing any prickles. It is 

 true that Mr. Lowe describes his plant as producing the 

 flowers before the leaves ; but then he figures the young 

 shoots without prickles, in which we conceive 

 difference to consist. 



According to Mr. Lowe this plant is a great ornament 

 of the gardens of Madeira, where it is cultivated, and where 

 it becomes a low tree, 15 or 20 feet high, with a trunk 

 sometimes 4 feet in circumference, and so soft that its 

 wood resembles cork : its branches are said to strike root 



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* See fol. 124fi. 



