250 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, Erythrina, 
pair obliquely so, from three to six inches long, and about the 
same breadth. They are deciduous in the cool season, which 
corresponds with winter in Europe. Petioles round, smooth, 
unarmed. Stipules of the petioles falcate, those of the leaflets 
round, and concave underneath, Racemes terminal, and 
projecting horizontally at a right angle from the branchlet, 
sub-secund, Peduncles round, while young and tender some- 
what mealy ; when advanced, smooth, ferruginous purple; 
pedicels ascending in a curved direction, tern, but often so 
crowded as to appear verticelled, Bracies minute, one under 
each pedicel, and two on the calyx. Flowers numerous, large, 
of a bright dazzling scarlet. Calya spathaceous, opening lon- 
gitudinally on the upper side; apex contracted, fiye-toothed. 
Banner oblong, erect. Wings scarcely one-fourth the length 
of the banner, semilunar, Keel two-petalled, and much like 
the wings, Filaments one and nine. Anthers sagittate. 
Germ long-pedicelled, mealy, from ten to fifteen-seeded. 
Style so long as to elevate the erect glutinous stigma a little 
above the anthers, Legume from six to twelve inches long, 
cuspidate, very protuberant at the seeds, and equally so on 
each margin, when ripe blackish, and wrinkled, Seeds from 
six to eight, oblong, smooth, blackish-purple. 
This tree is employed, in many parts of India, to support 
the black pepper vine. See Marsden’s History of’ Sumatra, 
page 107. The best method for raising them is by planting 
-cuttings of about eighteen inches, or two feet long, and about 
as thick as a man’s arm, half under ground, if planted of a 
greater length, the wind is apt to shake them, which prevents 
their striking root, From ten or more feet asunder, according 
to the quality of the soil, and in quincunx order, is from my 
ex perience, the best way. 
_ What seems to render. these trees very proper for this por- 
pose, is their quick growth, their firm, permanent, though — 
smooth bark, which never peels off, and gives firm hold to the 
roots of the vine, which come out abundantly at the joints. 
And lastly, they are full of leaves, and very shady daring 
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