Erythrina.] LEGUMINOS& (Harv.) 237 
many-flowered ; calyx puberulous, tubular, obsoletely crenate ; vexillum 
scarcely velvetty; vexillary stamen nearly free to the base; legumes 
torulose, unarmed, subglabrate. Zey./ 531- , 
sa BD) Between Mooje R. and Magalisberg, Burke § Zeyher! (Herb. Hk., Bth., 
Very near E. Humei, but a much larger and coarser plant, and perhaps arbores- 
cent ; judging from the leaves which are crowded round the end of the twigs. Sti- 
pules 3-1 inch long, thick and leathery, much larger than those of £. Humei. Peti- 
oles 6-8 inches long, 2-24 lines in diameter, ribbed and furrowed. Terminal leaflet 
3-6 inches long, 2—§ inches broad, sparsely prickly on both sides, subacute, but not 
acuminate ; the lateral 2-5 inches long, 14-3 wide, less ovate. Peduncles 10-16 
inches long ; the rachis tomentulose. Calyx somewhat membranous, truncate, with 
very obsolete lobes. Legumes 7-8 inches long, 4 inch wide at the seeds, narrowed 
between. Flowers crimson. 
3. E. Humei (FE. Mey.! Comm. p. 150) ; a shrub; branches, petioles 
and (often) the nerves of the leaves prickly ; leaflets petiolulate, broadly 
ovate, subobtusely acuminate, glabrous; racemes on long peduncles, densely 
many-flowered ; calyx puberulous or tomentulose, tubular, shortly 5- 
toothed; vexillum minutely velvetty ; vexillary stamen free nearly to 
the base; legumes unarmed. J. caffra, Ker. Bot. Reg. t. 7 36. A&B. 
Bot. Mag. t. 2431. DC. Prod. 2, p. 412, eacl. syn. Thunb. 
Var. 8. Raja; smaller ; the teeth of the calyx longer and more acuminate ; 
strongly recurved ; vee stamen adnate above the base. Z. Raja, Meisn.! in 
Hook. Lond. Journ. 2, p. 96. 
Has. Grassy hills in Caffraria, between Kovi and Kap R., and near the Keis- 
kamma, Drege! Queenstown District, Mrs. F. W. Barber! B. Natal, Krauss / 62. 
Or hak eee sneer places Bark of the half herbaceous twigs 
8 , gro wai one, in open ee 8 t) 
Sek-ociek: case. ase even. Prickles e horn-colour, glossy, triangular. 
Leaves scattered, on glabrous petioles, 3-5 inches long, the terminal remote. 
Eesti #3 nc ong, 1-24, bond al broad af at se epond the 
. uncles 12—10 in : > ’ 
ee ingewd rachis tomentulose. — Pisidies uekenecn-acariot, 1-1} inch long. Ripe 
legumes not seen. “eS 
4. E. acanthocarpa (E. Mey.! Comm. p. 151) 3 shrubby ; twigs, peti- 
oles, and midrib of the ‘toe prickly ; petioles slender, villous; 
leaflets transversely elliptical, obtuse or apiculate, glabrous and glaucous ; 
racemes lateral or terminal, few or many flowered, shortly pedunculate 
or subsessile ; calyx glabrous, campanulate, subtruncate, obsoletely and 
bluntly lobulate ; vexillum scarcely velvetty ; vexillary stamen adnate 
to the split tube; legumes clavato-stipitate, torulose, incurved, armed 
with prickles. #. Humeana, E. § Z.! 1692, excl. Syn. Bot. Mag. &e. 
Has. Forming low thickets in Albany, Queenstown, and Caffraria, Drege/ E. & 
Z! Mrs. F. W. Barber ! (Herb. Hk., Bth., Sd. D.) 
‘A divaricately branched, rigid shrub, 4-6 feet high, armed with sharp, subulate, 
prickles. The bark of the twigs is pale and rugulose. Petioles 1-24 inches 
long, slender, woolly when young. Leaflets broader than long, }-1 inch long, 1-14 
inch broad, pale, especially beneath. Flowers 1-14 inch long, the vexillum scarlet, 
tipped bir = “The root, according to Mrs. Barber, is long and succulent, and 
hes perfectly dry is extremely light, and in that state sometimes made into light 
is Tambookie-thorn. 
summer hats (probably like those made in India of the Neptunia). The colonial name 
