256 DiADELPHiA DECANDRiA. Erythiina. 



6. E. arborescens, Roxh. 



Sub-arboreous. Trunk and longer branches prickly. 

 Leaves terminal, unarmed ; leaflets reniform-deltoid, entire. 

 Racemes straight. Bractes three-flowered. Calt/ces trun- 

 cate, entire. Legume pedicelled, five-pointed, villous, from 

 six to eight seeded. 



From Nepal, Di. Buchanan sent the seeds to the Botanic 

 g'arden where in one year the plants blossomed for the first 

 time in October, In Nepal Dr. B. observed it to be a small 

 branchy tiee ten or twelve feet high; here in seven years 

 they are oidy 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, whiti>h 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 porlion 

 which supports the terminal one. Stipules oval, small. 

 Racemes from the terminal axills, solitary, perfectly straight, 

 longer than the leaves. Bractes solitary, three flowered, 

 ovate, within this common bracte, there is a niiuute proper 

 one at the base of each pedicel. Flowers numerous, large, 

 of a vivid scarlet, three-fold, pedicelled, drooping over each 

 other in an elegant indjricated form. Cabjx entire, but cam- 

 panulate, smooth, colouied. Carol ; banner sub-ovate, boat- 

 shaped, incumbent ov( r the rest of the flower. Wings short- 

 er than the keel, oblifjuely-obovate, greenish, /t^ip/ 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 

 lono-.pedicelled. Stgle the length of the stamens. Siigma 

 acute, ascending. Legumes pendulous, pedicelled, villous, 

 cuspidate, torose at the seeds. Seeds from five to ten. 



