236 : LEGUMINOS& (Harv.) [Erythrina. 
wide. Corolla yellow, twice as long. Ovary silky. Legume 2 inches long, strongly 
compressed, slightly curved, 7-8 seeded. 
LUI. ERYTHRINA, L. 
Calyx either truncate or bilabiate or cleft on one side and spathaceous. 
Vexillum ovate-oblong, without basal ears or calli, incumbent, very 
much longer than the alz and the dipetalous carina. Stamens straight, 
exserted, diadelphous or imperfectly monadelphous. Ovary stipitate, 
many-ovuled. Style straight, glabrous, with a lateral stigma, Legume 
indehiscent, compressed between the seeds, tipped with the hardened 
style. Seeds oval, with a linear scar. Endl. Gen. No. 6667. 
‘Trees or shrubs, natives of warm countries generally, Stem and leaves often 
prickly. Leaves pinnately-trifoliolate, the terminal leaflet remote. Stipelle glandu- 
lar. Stipules free. Flowers racemose, large and handsome, red or scarlet. Seeds 
commonly red and black. English name, ‘‘ coral-tree.” The generic name is from 
epu@pos, red. 
TABLE OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN SPECIES. 
1, Eu-erythrina.— Calyx truncate or bilabiate, subentire or shortly 5—toothed. 
Petioles without prickles ; stem arborescent ; legume 
unarmed, glabrate a a = -. (1) caffra, 
Petioles and often the nerves of the leaflets armed with prickles. 
unarmed ; leaflets subacute or obtuse ; 
= calyx truncate... = ee =e ... (2) Zeyheri, 
‘ : Legumes unarmed ; leafl, acuminate ; calyx shortly 
=< : 5-toothed ... (3) Humei, 
_ Legumes prickly ; leaf. transversely ‘elliptic, obtuse (4) acanthocarpa. 
2. Chirocalyx.—Caiyx cleft on one side, spathaceous ; its 
lobes filiform = a te “az seek ove ty) a, 
1, EU-ERYTHRINA, (Sp. 1-4). 
1. E. caffra (Thunb.! Fl. Cap. p. 559); a tree; branches prickly, 
petioles unarmed ; leaflets petiolulate, broadly ovate, obtusely acuminate, 
glabrous ; racemes densely many-flowered ; calyx tomentulose, ie! 
labiate or splitting, afterwards enlarged, obsoletely denticulate ; vexil- 
lum minutely velvetty ; vexillary stamen adnate below the middle to 
the split staminal tube; legumes moniliform, glabrate, unarmed, £.d Z./ 
1691. H. Mey. Comm. p. 159. Krauss! 286. 
. cpnscl,.. x: LAB: In woods, not far from the sea, in Uitenhage, Albany, Caffraria, and Port 
bw ssa Natal ; often cultivated in colonial gardens. (Herb. Th., Hk. Bth., 8d., D.) 
2. E. Zeyheri (Harv.) ; arborescent ?; branches, petioles, and the 
nerves of the leaves prickly 3 petioles araneo-pubescent, ribstriate ; ter- 
minal leaflet broadly ovate, subacute, lateral ovate-oblong or ovato-lanceo- 
late, subcuneate at base, all prominently ribbed and veined beneath ; 
stipules oblong, obtuse, or subacute; racemes on long peduncles, densely 
