254 DiADELPHiA DECANDRiA. Eryihma. 



4. E. oral} folia. Roxh. 



Arboreous, armed. Leaves \erx\Me; leaflets ov(i\. Peti- 

 oles armed. Racemes terminal, horizontal. Banner obcor- 

 dafe. 



Beng. Hari-kekra. 



Is ratlier 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 s^eed ripens before the rains begin. 



Tniuk straight. Bark \ ery thick, and deeply cracked. 

 Branches niimerou!^, armed m ith 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; nnder 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. Stipules small, hard. Racemes simple, 

 terminal, horizontal, froni one to six. I'^buvers 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 ; claro 

 long and tapering. Winys a third shorter than the keel, with 

 the extremities coloured. Stamens ascending, one and nine, 

 Avith as many corresponding glands on their inside round the 

 base of the pedicel of the germ. Anthers incumbent, on al- 

 ternately longer filaments. Germ pedicelled, downy. Style 

 awled. Stigma small. Legume as in the genus. 



5. E. suhlobata. Roxb. 



Arboreous, armed. Leaves ternate ; leaflets sub-triangu- 



