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Erythrsea continued. 



E. littoralis (shore), fl. pink, crowded, sessile, fasciculate. June. 

 L ovate-oblong, obtuse. Stem simple or branched, dwarf, tetra- 

 gonal. A. Sin, Europe (Britain). Bitnnial. (Sy. En. B. 908.) 



FIG. 732. FLOWERING STEM OF ERYTHR.EA MUHLENBEROI. 



I (Muhlenberg's). fl. of a deep pink colour, with 

 a grewuM.-.-.. . star in the centre. Spring. 1. oblong-obtuse, 

 the floral ones lanceolate. Branches numerous, slender. A. 8m. 

 California. An excellent plant for growing on rockwork, or for 

 margins of a loamy border. See Fig. 732. 



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diameter tube slender ; looes 01 wie uuiu wujwwi \>*. 

 rose-coloured, yeUow at the base, as long as the tube. August. 

 Lfapfc* scattered, sessile, tin. to lin. long, oblong or ovate- 

 oblong, rounded at the apex; base rounded or cordate ; upper 

 and flSral leaves narrower and acute or acuminate. Stem simple 

 OT cvmosely branched above, few-flowered A 6m. to 10m. Cab- 

 fornia, 1878. A slender erect hardy annual. (B. M. 6396.) 

 ERYTHBINA (from erythros, red ; referring to the 

 colour of the flowers). Coral-tree. OED. Leguminosa. 

 A genus of about thirty species of trees and shrubs, 

 principally natives of tropical regions in both the New 

 World and the Old, and at the Cape Flowers coral- 

 red large, in dense racemes, produced usnally before 

 the' development of the large leaves (in a few si 

 on the ends of the annual shoots); calyx split spatha- 

 ceous, bilabiate; petals very unequal; standard large ; 

 upper stamen free to the base, or sometimes connate with 

 the others half-way up the filaments; anthers uniform. 

 Pod linear turgid, torulose. Leaves constantly tri- 



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ally withheld, so that the wood may ripen, the leaves 



Erythrina continued. 



jf the previous year. The herbaceous-stemmed species, 

 57. crista-galli and E. herbacea, form a stoat rootstock, 

 rom which shoots are annually produced, and upon these 

 the flowers are borne in autumn. Both these kinds 

 should be started in heat, in spring, unless when 

 planted out of doors, in which case they may be left to 

 start themselves on the approach of warm weather. 

 for pot specimens, however, a little extra heat assists 

 the rootstocks, and is conducive to the free production 

 of shoots. As these increase in strength, a lower tem- 

 perature will be sufficient, till, finally, the plants may be 

 placed out of doors for the summer. By taking off the 

 young shoots with a heel, in spring, and inserting them 

 in sandy soil, on a little bottom heat, a stock is easily 

 obtained. After flowering, the shoots die down, when 

 the plants may be placed under stages in cool houses, 

 where they can be kept dry and at rest till the follow- 

 ing spring. Erythrinas, planted out of doors, require a 

 covering of leaves or cocoa-nut fibre, to protect the boles 

 from frost. 

 B. Corallodeniron (Coral-tree), fl. deep carlet, large, in long 



racemes, appearing when the leaves have fallen. May and June. 



I., leaflets broad, rhomboid-ovate, acute ; petioles unarmed. Stem 



arboreous, prickly. A. 6ft to 12ft West Indies, 1690. Sm E. 



spinosa. 



Fio 733 PORTION OF ANNUAL HERBACEOUS FLOWERING 



SHOOT OF ERYTHRINA CRISTA-GALLI. 



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