264 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, Erythrina, 
A. E. ovalifolia. Roxb. , 
Arboreous, armed. Leaves ternate; leaflets oval, Pett- 
oles armed. acemes terminal, Liccconltsle Banner obcor- 
date. 
Beng. Hari-kekra, 
Is rather a scarce tree about Calcutta, which is the only 
place in which I have yet seen it. Flowering time the end of 
the cold season ; the seed ripens before the rains begin. 
‘Trunk straight. Bark very thick, and deeply cracked. 
Branches numerous, armed with innumerable, small, sharp, 
black pointed prickles, Leaves scattered, petioled, ternate. 
Leaflets oval, entire; upper side very pale green, and cover- 
ed with a few, slender depressed hairs; under side very 
hoary, without any distinct kind of pubescence; from four 
to six inches long, and from two to three broad. Petioles 
smooth, except for now and then a few prickles; two umbili- 
cate glands at the insertion of the pair of leaflets, and two 
similar ones at its apex, Sdipules small, hard. Racemes simple, 
terminal, horizontal, from one to six. Flowers numerous, 
dark red, collected in threes round the raceme, on downy, 
erect pedicels, Bractes of the pedicels four-fold ;_ viz. one 
below the insertion of each. lateral pedicel, and two to the 
central one; small, downy ; those of the calyx two, small, op- 
posite. Calyx bursting open irregularly, on the outside dow- 
ny, no meliferous gland could be seen. Banner, twice the 
_ length of the keel, erect, broad-obcordate, emarginate ; claw 
Jong and tapering. Wings a third shorter than the keel, with 
the extremities coloured. Stamens ascending, one and nine, 
with as many corresponding glands on their inside round the 
base of the pedicel of the germ. Authers incumbent, on al- 
ternately longer filaments. Germ pedicelled, downy. Sty 
awled. er small, neem as in the genus, | 
5. E. sublobata. Riek es i | ee 
— armed, Leaves ternate ; : tor tiseien S | 
