298 CALYCIFLORJE. 



older branches aculeate; the younger branches unarmed, terete, 

 glabrous. Leaflets petiolulated, the terminal one rhomboideo- 

 ovate, the lateral ones broad ovate, unequilateral and as if trun- 

 cated at the base, bluntish, glabrous (when young puberulous 

 beneath), sub-3-nerved at the base (the other nerves being less 

 distinct, and wavy), delicately veined : petiole elongated, sub- 

 terete, unarmed, glabrous : petiolules greenish, when young 

 puberulous. Stipules lanceolate, bluntish, deciduous : stipels 

 small oblong, glanduloso-porose at the apex. Racemes axillary, 

 length of the leaf, solitary, bearing a number of showy bright 

 scarlet pedicelled flowers, 2-3 together. Calyx ^ of an inch in 

 length, subcampanulate, truncated, subentire with exception of 

 a thickened bluntish tooth beneath. Standard 2 inches in 

 length, rather longer than the stamens, lineari-oblong, obtuse, 

 straight, of a bright scarlet colour : wings nearly twice the size 

 of the keel, of a pale blush colour, veined, somewhat obovate in 

 shape: keel in two pieces, dimidiato-orbiculate. Stamens 9 

 and 1 (the 10th, accrete to the others for | of an inch), unequal 

 in length, of a crimson colour : anthers lineari-lanceolate. 

 Ovary pedicelled, linear, compressed, subglabrous : style elon- 

 gated, subulate, slightly curved, tinged with crimson : stigma 

 simple. Legume 6-7 inches long, cylindrical, torulose, with a 

 long filiform beak at the apex, 46 seeded : seeds oval, 

 scarcely compressed, of a bright scarlet with a black spot below 

 the hi 1 uni. 



This species may be distinguished from the following, by 

 the flower being of a deep crimson, and by the standard being 

 narrow and not reflected. 



2. Erythrina velutina. T^elvety Erythrina. 



Stem arboreous prickly, leaflets rounded at both 

 ends stellate-pubescent above hoary and stellato-velu- 

 tino-tomentose beneath, the terminal leaflet trans- 

 versely elliptic, calyx spathe-shaped 5-denticulated 

 tomentose, standard elliptic reflected. 



Willd. Sp. PI. III. 904. H. B. 4 Kunth, nov. gen. Am. VI. 

 435. Bot. Mag. 3227. 



HAB. In the plains. 



FL. April. 



A tree, 20-30 feet in height: branches spreading, armed 

 with scattered short black conical prickles, velutino-tomentose 

 towards their extremities. Leaves situated at the ends of 

 the branches : leaflets petiolulated, broad-ovate, (the terminal 

 one being broader than it is long) rounded and sometimes 

 emarginate at the apex, nerved with the lowest pair of nerves 

 arising from the base of the mid-rib, rendering the leaf sub-3- 

 nerved, veined, green and stellato-puberulous above, rufescenti- 



