354 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Erythrina. 



A striking tree in flower. Bark yellowish, smooth, shining, 

 papery ; wood very soft and white but fairly durable and 

 in use like that of E. suberosa. Yern. Hind. Mandara. 

 Pangra. 



2. ERYTHRINA STRICTA, Roxb. ; F. B. I. ii. 189 ; W. & A. 260; 

 Bedd. Fl. t. 175. 



West Coast, in Malabar and Travancore. 

 A moderate- sized tree with corky bark armed with prickles, 

 the wood white, soft and spongy but tough, used for fishing- 

 net floats. Yern. Tarn. Mai. Murukku. 



3. ERYTHRINA MYSORENSIS, Gamble in Kew Bull., 1918, ined. 



Mysore at Chikanhalli, 3,000 ft. (Meebold). 

 Apparently a small tree with few or 110 prickles. 



4. ERYTHRINA SUBEROSA, Roxb. ; F. B. I. ii. 189 ; W. & A. 

 260. E. sublobata, Roxb. ; W. & A. 261. 



N. Circars and Deccan, in dry forests, up to 3,000 ft. 

 A moderate-sized deciduous tree with thick corky grey 

 bark and white soft wood, fibrous but tough. The wood 

 is used for scabbards, boxes and jars, and for covering 

 with lacquer, it weighs about 19 Ibs. per c. ft. Yern, Hind. 

 Pangra ; Ur. Paldua, Chaldua ; Tel. Mulu moclugu. 



38. Mucuna, Adams. 



Large twining shrubs or herbs. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate ; 

 stipules deciduous ; stipels minute, subulate. Flowers large, 

 purple or greenish, turning black when dried, fasciculately 

 racemed on usually long axillary or lateral peduncles, sometimes 

 subcymose, the rhachis nodose ; bracts deciduous ; bracteoles small . 

 Calyx-tu\)Q widely campanula te, the lowest tooth long, the lateral 

 short, the upper 2 connate. Corolla much exserted ; standard 

 about half the length of the wings and keel, folded, auricled at 

 base ; wings oblong or ovate, incurved, semisagittate at base ; 

 keel as long as or longer than the wings, incurved, acute or beaked. 

 Stamens diadelphous ; anthers dimorphous, the longer basifixed, 

 the shorter ovate and bearded. Ovary sessile, villous, few- or 

 many-ovuled ; style filiform ; stigma capitate. Pod very variable 

 in shape and sculpture, usually covered with fine brittle needle- 

 like irritant bristles. Seed orbicular with long linear hilum or 

 transversely oblong with short hilum ; strophiole 0. 



