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112 MERRILL. 
t. 77, but the description does not apply to the plant figured and described by 
Rumphius. It seems reasonable to consider that the specimen in the Linnean 
Merbarium represents the type of the species, and that he erred in referring to 
it Rumphius’s Gelala alba; what the specimen in the Linnean Herbarium really 
represents can only be determined by an examination of the material. Specimens 
closely matching Rumphius’ figure of Gelala alba are represented by For. Bur. 
3557 Curran from Palawan, but in all respects other than the mottled leaves 
this specimen is typical Erythrina indica Lam. Baker™ states “EZ. picta Linn. 
(Rumph. Amboin. ¢. 77) appears to be a mere form of this [E. indica Lam.], 
with variegated leaves.” 
2. Erythrina stipitata sp. nov. § Microprreryx. 
Arbor circiter 10 m alta; ramulis vix aculeatis; foliis trifoliolatis, 
foliolis junioribus ovatis vel: rhomboideis, acuminatis, submembranaceis, 
subtus pallidis, puberulis; racemis simplicibus, circiter 15 cm longis; 
floribus 3 cm longis; leguminibus 5 ad 9 cm longis, circiter 8 mm latis, 
subcylindraceis, vix torulosis, longissime tenuiter stipitatis, valvis tenue 
coriaceis, reticulatis. 
A tree about 10 m high. ‘Trunk with rather thin, yellowish bark, and 
with very large, scattered, subpyramidal spines which are from 1 to 1.5 
em high, and nearly as thick at the base, minutely apiculate. Branches 
glabrous, unarmed, the ultimate branchlets stout, often slightly puber- 
ulent. Leaves trifoliolate, all parts, when very young, densely puber- 
ulent; leaflets pale beneath, pubescent, the terminal one rhomboid-ovate, 
acuminate, the lateral ones ovate, up to 5 em long (probably considerably 
larger when mature). Flowers crimson, about 3 em long, in many 
flowered racemes about 15 cm long, their pedicels about 5 mm long, 
solitary or two at a node. Calyx broadly campanulate, distinctly 2-lobed, 
about 6 mm long. Vexillum 3 cm long, 1.3 em wide, about equally 
narrowed at both ends, scarcely clawed. Pod subeylindric; long-apiculate, 
5 to 9 cm long, about 8 mm wide, glabrous or nearly so, dehiscent along 
the ventral suture, the pedicels slightly elongated, the calyx persistent ; 
stipe very slender, 1.5 to 2 em long, about 1 mm thick; valves very 
thinly coriaceous, obscurely reticulate; seeds few, three or four, brown, 
when nearly mature, about 7 mm long, and half as thick. 
LuBANG ISLAND, near the town of Lubang, in open lands at sea level, with 
flowers and nearly mature fruits April 7, 1903, Merrill 958. Deciduous, with 
only immature leaves at this date. 
This species is allied to Erythrina suberosa Roxb. of British India, but ap- 
parently most closely related to H. microcarpa Koord. & Val. of Java; from the 
latter it differs especially in its unarmed branches and branchlets, differently 
shaped seeds, and in its differently disposed flowers which in EF. microcarpa are 
in racemosely disposed cymules, and in HZ. stipitata are in simple racemes, 
** Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 2 (1876) 189. 
