15 ERYTHRINA ARBORESCENS. 
Trunk of the young trees, when first in blossom, (18 months old,) 
straight, with not more than two, or three, simple, ascend- 
ing branches, armed with a few, scattered, small, sharp 
prickles ; otherwise smooth in every part. 
Leaves ternate. Leaflets entire, smooth above, whitish underneath ; 
the exterior one nearly reniform; the pair obliquely-broad- 
cordate. 
Petioles longer than the leaflets, round, smooth, perfectly destitute 
of prickles. A pair of Glands at the insertion of the pair of 
leaflets, and another pair at the apex of the long portion 
_ which supports the terminal one. 
Stipules oval, small. 
Racemes from the exterior axils, solitary, perfectly straight, longer 
than the leaves. 
Bractes solitary, three-flowered, ovate ; 
bracte, there is a minute proper one, at the base of each 
within this common 
pedicel. 
Flowers very numerous, large, the most vivid scarlet that can be 
conceived, three-fold, pedicelled, drooping over each other 
in an elegant, imbricated form. 
Calyx entire, subcampanulate, smooth, coloured. 
Corol : Banner subovate, boat-shaped, incumbent over the rest of 
the flowers. Wings shorter than the keel, obliquely-obovate, 
greenish. Kee/ also greenish, two-parted at the base and apex, 
scarce half the length of the stamens. 
Filaments rather shorter than the banner, united into one body 
near the base, alternately longer. 
Germ long, pedicelled. Style length of the stamens. Stigma acute, 
ascending. 
Legumes pendulous, pedicelled, villous, cuspidate, torose at the 
seed. 
Seeds from five to ten. 
Dr. Buchanan sent from Napaul, the seeds to the Botanic 
Garden at Calcutta, where, in one and a half year, the plants 
blossomed for the first time, in October. In Napaul, Dr. 
Buchanan observed it to be a small, branchy tree, ten or twelve 
feet high; here in three years they were only five or six feet 
high, and with but very few branches. 
220, ERYTHRINA RESUPINATA. 
Herbaceous. Leaves ternate, appearing after the flowers decay. 
Raceme radical, leafless, Corol resupinate. Filaments one and 
nine. 
Root perennial. 
Stem nothing more than a single, four or five inch high, scarce 
prickly, slightly villous shoot, which (with the leaves) 
decays about the close of the rains. 
Leaves ternate, rather long-petioled : leaflets nearly round, entire, 
smooth, two or three inches each way. 
Petioles and nerves of the leaflets somewhat prickly. 
Stipules ovate. 
Racemes radical, short peduncled, appearing long before the her- 
baceous stem, roundish-ovate, under six inches in height, 
but uncommonly interesting, and beautiful. 
ERYTHRINA RESUPINATA. ; 16 
Flowers numerous, three-fold, pretty large, bright scarlet. 
Calyx bilabiate. 
Corol resupinate. Banner oval-shaped, greatly longer, and larger 
than the keel, bright scarlet. Wings obovate, minute, and 
nearly colourless. Keel greatly larger than the wings, tinged 
with red. 
Filaments one, and nine-fold, alternately longer ; all are shorter 
than the banner, but double the length of the keel. 
A native of Hindoostan. In the Botanic Garden at Calcutta 
they blossom in March, at which time no part of the plant is 
visible but the raceme. 
221. CYLISTA TOMENTOSA. 
Shrubby ; the terminal shoots twining. Leaves ternate. Racemes 
axillary. Divisions of the calyx cuneate. Legume of one or two 
round lobes, with one, round, blue-violet, highly-polished seed 
in each, 
Stem perennial, short, with but few stunted branches in its na- 
tive sterile soil; but in the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, 
the second year the branches lengthened much, and 
twined to a considerable extent; the young parts are round 
and downy. 
Leaves ternate. Leaflets cordate, entire, downy, from two to three 
inches long, and from one to two broad. 
Petioles channeled, downy. 
Stipules of the petiole lanceolate ; of the leaflets subulate. 
Racemes axillary, shorter than the leaves. 
Flowers yellow. 
Calyx to the base four-cleft, downy, permanent; divisions cu- 
neate ; the upper one broad and two-parted. 
Corol papilionaceous, shorter than the calyx, withering. 
Legume of one, or two, nearly spherical, villous lobes; when of 
two, it is about as long as the calyx. 
Seed single, round, highly polished, deep-violet blue, of the size 
of a pea, in each lobe of the legume. 
Is a native of the Mysore country, where it was discovered by 
Dr. Buchanan, and the seeds sent by him to the Botanic Garden 
at Calcutta, where the plants thrive well, and blossom about the 
close of the rains, and during the cold season; seed ripe in March 
and April. 
In the parched soil of Mysore, Dr. Buchanan observed the plant 
to be stunted, and shrubby. In the rich soil of the Botanic Garden 
at Calcutta, the whole plant is twining after the first year, and 
very extensive. 
222. FLACOURTIA INERMIS. 
Arboreous, unarmed. Leaves elliptic, crenate-serrate, polished. 
Racemes axillary, short. Flowers hermaphrodite. Style 5-cleft. 
Tomi-tomi of the Malays. 
