No, 296. 
ERYTHRINA CRISTA-GALLL 
Class, Order. 
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
This is a much more free and abundant 
flowering sort than any of this genus with 
which we are acquainted. Our plant, which 
was not three feet in height, had near 
thirty blossoms open at one time: they are 
e >< three together, from the axil of ` 
ach leaf. The branches are smooth, but 
Pe leaf-stalks have here and there a small 
crooked thorn. 
This superb plant flowered with us in the 
month of May. It is said to have been in- 
troduced in 177] from Brazil a country 
which seems to be, if possible, more than 
any p favoured by the All-bountiful 
the riches and splendour of ‘its 
vegetable „ 
It is somewhat tender, requiring the stove 
at all seasons, and may be increased by eut- 
tings: the soil should be rich mellow loam. 
