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ERYTHRINA POIANTHES. NAKED-FLOWERING 
CoraL-TREE. 
KEKE KEK EKER EER EK 
Class and Order. 
Diapeven1aA DecanpRiA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Leeuminos2. ) 
Generic Character. ge 
Cal. tubulosus ore truncato subdentato aut spathaceus. 
Cor. vexillum longissinum oblongum, ale et carina dipe- 
tala vexillo multo breviores. Stamina diadelpha recta, 
decimo nunc ceteris subcoalito, nunc libero alis multo 
breviore aut rarius deficiente. Leguwmen longum torulosum 
bivalve polyspermum. Semina ovata, hilo laterali—Ar- 
buscule aut frutices,rarius herbe. Stipule parve a petiolo 
distincte. Folia petiolata 1-juga cum impari, foliolis loco” 
stipellarum glandulis bast stipatis. Caules et petioli inter- 
dum aculeati. Racemi elongati, pedicellis sepe ternatim 
approximatis. Flores rubro-coccinet. Semina sepius rubro 
et nigro mixta, nitida. DC. iin, 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
EryTurina poianthes ; caule arboreo, ramis_petiolisque 
sparsim aculeolatis, foliis imermibus ovntosdéltdideld 
obtusis basi subcordatis, junioribus utrinque petiolis 
ramulis racemisque ferrugineo-pubescentibus subto- 
mentosis, calycibus tubuloso-campanulatis subcar- 
nosis pubescentibus, ore constricto truncato dentibus 
obsoletis, vexillo lineari-lanceolato elongato subfalcato, 
staminibus subdiadelphis inclusis vexillo paullum brevi- 
ore, carina alisque parvis inclusis calycem equantibus. 
Eryturina poianthes. Brotero in Linn. Trans. v. 1A. p. 
342. ¢. 10,11. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1246. De Cand. 
Prodr. v. 2. p. 411. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 248. 
Descr. A low free, fifteen to twenty feet high, with the ¢runk and 
branches thick in proportion, the former being sometimes four feet in 
circumference. Branches at first erect and straight, but soon becoming 
curved and even bent downwards from their own weight and the pecu- 
har softness of the wood, which is so light and pithy when dried, as to 
resemble cork, and splits very readily. Zrunk and branches covered” 
with an even, greenish, ash-coloured bark, the smaller ones almost white, 
with small, solitary, scattered, hooked prickles: the main stem oblique, 
or even horizontal in old trees, bearing many, subdivided, erect branches, 
each tipped, from April to June, with a spike of brilliant scarlet flowers, 
which 
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