Erythrina, DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, 249 
terally. Calyx bilabiate, the downy upper lip bidentate ; 
the under one three-cleft. Corel papilionaceous, Stamina 
one and nine. Anthers round. Germ sessile, two-seeded, 
Stigma large, smooth, pellucid. Legume pedicelled, linear, 
_ thin, clothed with a soft, brown, velvet-like down, apex one- 
seeded, Seed round-reniform, compressed, its greatest dia- 
meter nearly an inch, Jntegument single, smooth, brown. 
Perisperm none. Embryo as in the other Leguminose, 
TE per erenes 
ERYTHRINA. Schreb. gen. N. 1163. 
slallgge bilabiate. Corod with the standard much larger 
than the small wings and keel. Legume pedicelled, torose, 
1. E, indica, Willd, iii. 913. 
Arboreous, armed with black prickles. Leaves ternate, 
unarmed, Racemes terminal, horizontal. Keel two-petalled, 
equalling the wings. 
Mouricou, Rheed, Mal. vi. t. 7. 
Sans. Mundar, 
Beng. Palita-mandar. 
Teling. Badsta-chittoo. 
Dudap, or Dudap of the Malays; and when employed to 
support the black pepper vine, for which it is very general. 
ly used, they call it chinkereen. ‘ 
_A pretty large tree, and common over India and the 
Islands, Flowering time the beginning of the hot season, in 
March and April, Seed ripens in June and July. 
_ Trunk pretty straight, short but thick; branches many, 
forming a large, shady head. Bark of the trunk and large 
branches smooth, of a greenish ash-colour, in the younger 
branches, armed with small, black, sharp prickles, which 
: generally fall off about the third or fourth year, leaving the 
trunk and large branches unarmed. Leaves ternate. Leaf- _ 
4eis smooth, and entire, the terminal one broad-cordate ; the . 
Sc WOLOM = oe bo. FI. 
