Erythrina.} LEGUMIMOSAE, 99 
stipellae. Peduncles 1-flowered. Bracteoles roundish, almost half as lon 
as the calyx. Flowers resupinate, blue or white. Calyx-lobes lanceolate. 
Standard 2‘ long. Pod linear, aa; subsessile, pubescent, its valves not 
gate — compressed. 
m gardens. — A native of East India, but a common garden plant in 
mont prada perked 
10. ERYTHRINA, L. 
Calyx truncate or 5-toothed. Standard large, a mek ee 
basal appendages. Wings very short, sometimes wanting much 
shorter than the inter, its 2 petals free or partially mane, ‘Venillacy 
stamen free, or connate with the sheath at the base, the others connate 
to the middle. Ovary stipitate, with several ovules. Style subulate, 
glabrous, with a small terminal stigma. Pod torulose, falcate, filled with 
cellular tissue, sometimes follicular or al seeds ovoid, with a 
oblong lateral hilum. — Tre erect shrubs, often prickly. Beige 
small. Leaves pinnately 3- ‘Maint with giasd ike stipellae. Flowers 
either in axillary leafless, or in terminal racemes which are foliose at 
the base, in fascicles of 2 or more, generally scarlet. Bracts and bractlets 
sy or wantin 
t 25 cabo all belonging to the tropics. 
s E monosperma, Gaud. Bot. Voy. Freyc. p. 486, tab. 114. — A tree, 
unarmed or sparsely aculeate with short conical SET 20—25 ft. high, 
with a short thick trunk and a broad spreading crown, the stiff, guarled, 
e unca 
cordate at the base, chartaceous, tomentulose underneath, the terminal 
one largest; the petiole 4—5‘, considerably extending beyond the lateral 
leaflets; the articulate petiolules 2'/2. Stipules gland-like, one or two 
for the base of = petiole, one for each lateral and two for the terminal 
petiolule. aes in the axils of the ultimate leaves, fulvo-tomentose, 
stout, dense, Coe with 2 or 1 flowers at a node, 6—8’ long; bracts 
triangular, 1“ or less; pedicels 2—4“. Calyx thickly tomentose, tubular, 
minutely 5-toothed, 8—12” long, soon splitting laterally. 
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as long as the standard, the alternate ones shorter, that opposite the 
standard connate at the base. Anthers pointed, versatile. Ovary tomentose, 
stipitate, 3—5-ovuled, narrowing to a slender and straight style of about 
1‘ in length. Pod 1'/2—3/ long, torulose, dehiscent, 1- to several-seeded. 
Seeds red, about !/2‘ long, the broad hilum occupying the greater part 
of their ventral side. — bea pale red or orange, rarely yellow. — 
Hook. & Arn. Bot, Beech. p. 81. — Gray, Bot. U. S. E. E. p. 444. Mann, 
Fl. Haw. Islds. p. 57. — E. Late Nadéaud, Enum. PI. Tah. no. 499. — - 
Mrs. Sinclair, pl. 18. ms 
