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XIX. Descriptions of two new Species of Erythrina. By Felix de 

 Avellar Brotero, Professor of Botany at Coimbra, F.M.L S. 



Read June 5, 1823 ; and March 16, 1824. 



ERYTHRINA poianthes. 



Er. foliis ternatis, foliolis lateralibus ovatis, intermedio rhom- 

 beo-ovato, omnibus subtus pubescentibus, rhachi petiolo- 

 que communi aculeatis ; caule arboreo, aculeato ; calyce 

 obliqufe truncate, latere superior! vel fisso vel integro ; sta- 

 minibus diadelphis, vexillo vix brevioribus. 



Tab. X. XI. 



Radix horizontaliter protensa, ramosa, lignosa; ligno albido, 

 levi, cortice ex viridi fusco. 



Caulis arboreus, decern ad quindecim pedes, et ultr^, altus, teres, 

 glaber, infern^ saepe inermis, supernb aculeatus, ramosus ; 

 ramis alternis, erectis, aculeatis ; aculeis sparsis, horizonta- 

 libus, infem^ subcoccineis, apicibus fuscis. 



Folia annua, alterna, patentia, ternata, petiolata ; foliolis inte- 

 gerrimis, utrinque viridibus, subtus in rhachi aculeatis pu- 

 bescentibusque, nervoso-venosis, supra glabris ; duobus la- 

 teralibus oppositis ovatis, obtusiusculis, tres ad sex uncias 

 longis, duas ad quatuor in basi latis, semilamina eorum 

 externa latiori ; intermedio, seu imparl, rhombeo-ovato, 

 lateralibus undique maiori. Petiolus communis basi cras- 

 siori articulatus, ibique duabus stipulis sessilibus, subpu- 

 bescentibus, obtusis, nervosis, cultratis, stipatus, glaber, 



teres. 



