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Erythrina, DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, 253 
3. E. suberosa, Roxb, 
Arboreous, with corky, deeply cracked bark. Leaves 
white, with down, ternate, prickles three-fold, and stipulary. 
Petioles armed. Racemes axillary, spreading. Wings most 
minute. Keel one-petalled. 
Teling. Moonee, Maduga. 
This species I have found in the Circar only ; there it is 
much less common than the E, indica, but grows in every 
soil, and situation. Leaves deciduous during the cold sea- 
son. Flowers in February and March, soon shor the leaves 
appear. 
In the Ganjam district, a variety is fousd, with the exte- 
rior leaflets reniform, and the apex perfectly rounded. 
Trunk erect, generally from eight to twelve feet to the 
branches, covered with light gray, corky, deeply cracked 
bark ; branches numerous, very crooked, spreading in every 
direction. Prickles stipulary, three-fold at the insertion of the 
leaves, and no where else, recurved, sharp, falling off about 
the third or fourth year, Leaves alternate, ternate. Leaf- 
lets the pair obliquely broad-cordate, the exterior one rhom- 
biform, entire, above hairy ; below covered with much soft, 
white down, three or four inches each way. Petioles pretty 
long, round, downy, armed witha few small prickles. Glands 
a pair at the insertion of the lateral leaflets, and another pair 
where the common petiole ends in the exterior leaflets. Sei- 
- pules lanceolate. Racemes axillary, sometimes terminal, ho- 
rizontal, &c, as in indica, but much smaller. Flowers as in 
indica but smaller. Calyx tubular, with a two-lipped mouth, 
Corol; banner as in indica, Wings minute, colourless, hid 
within the calyx. Keel one-petalled, cordate, many times 
longer than the wings, Filaments ten, all connected, alter- 
nately shorter. Legume pedicelled, containing generally two, 
though sometimes three remote seeds, the interstices filled 
with a MBrey: light spongy substance. 
