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Erythrina Herbacea. Herbaceous 

 Coral-Tree. 



Clafs and Order. 



DlADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



Generic Cbaracler, 



Cal. 2-labiatus. Cor. vexillum longiffimum lanceolatum. 

 Leg. torulofum. 



Specific Cbaracler and Synonyms. 



ERYTHRINA herbacea ; foliis ternatis rhombeis glabris, 



caule herbaceo fab petiolos fpinulofo, caly- 



cibus truncatis, vexillo acuto itaminibus lon- 



giori. 

 ERYTHRINA herbacea. Sp. PI. 992. Willd. v. 3. p. 912. 



Reichard. v. 3. p. 395. Hort. Kew. 3. p. 8. 



MarL Mill. Dicl. 1. 

 ERYTHRINA foliis ternatis, caulibus fimpliciflimis fruticofo- 



annuis. Hort. Cliff. 354. 

 CORALLODENDRON foliis ternatis, caule fimpliciffimo 



inermi. Frew. Ehret. t. 58. 

 CORAL carolinenfis, haftato folio. Dill. Eltham. 107. t. 90. 



/. 106. 

 CORALLODENDRON humile, fpica florum longiffima, ra- 



dice craffifTima. Catejb. Carol. 49. /. 49. 



The branches though they appear fhrubby are annual, dying 

 in general down to the root-flock every winter; yet it fome- 

 times happens that a branch does not perifh in this manner, 

 but continuing to vegetate becomes as it were an elongation 

 of the root-ftock, and thus the plant puts on fomewhat of the 

 habit of Erythrina Corallodendron. 



Being a native of South-Carolina, is generally confidered as 

 a greenhoufe plant; but Miller has obferved that, unlets 

 nurfed in the ftove, it feldom flowers, yet in too much heat it 

 is apt to fall a prey to infe&s and by the lofs of its foliage to 

 be deprived of much of its beauty. 



Communicated by Mr. Loddiges of Hackney. Flowers 

 from June to September. 



