256 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, Erythrina, 
6. E. arborescens, Roxb. 
Sub-arboreous. Trunk and longer branches prickly. 
Leaves terminal, unarmed ; /eaflets reniform-deltoid, entire. 
Racemes straight. Brates three-flowered. Calyces trun- 
cate, entire. Legume pedicelled, five-pointed, villous, from 
six to eight-seeded. 
From Nepal, Dr. Buchanan sent the seeds to the Botanic 
garden where in one year the plants blossomed for the first 
time in October. In Nepal Dr. B, observed it to be a small 
branchy tree ten or twelve feet high; here in seven years 
they are only five or six feet high, and with but very few 
branches. 
Trunk straight, with not more than two or three, simple, 
ascending branches, armed with a few, scattered small, sharp 
prickles, otherwise smooth in every part. Leaves ternate. 
Leaflets entire, smooth above, whitish underneath, the exterior 
one nearly reniform, the pair obliquely broad-cordate. Pe- 
-tioles longer than the leaflets, round, smooth, perfectly desti- 
tute of prickles, a pair of glands at the insertion of the pair 
of leaflets, and another pair at the apex of the long portion 
which supports the terminal one, Stipules oval, small. 
Racemes from the terminal axills, solitary, perfectly straight, 
Jonger than the leaves, Bractes solitary, three-flowered, 
ovate, within this common bracte, there is a minute proper 
one at the base of each pedicel. Flowers numerous, large, 
of = scarlet, three-fold, pedicelled, drooping over each 
<< n an elegant imbricated form. Calyx entire, but cam- 
panulate, smiooth, coloured, Corol ; banner sub-ovate, boat- 
shaped, incumbent over the rest of the flower. Wings short- 
er than the keel, obliquely-obovate, greenish, Keel also green- 
ish, two-parted at the base, and apex, scarcely half the length 
of the stamens. Filaments rather shorter than the banner, 
united into one body near the base, alternately longer, Germ. 
long-pedicelled. Style the length of the stamens. Sigma 
acute, ascending, Legumes pendulous, pedicelled, villous, 
cuspidate, torose at the seeds, Seeds from five toten,  —- 
