64 LegUminOSCB. \Strongylodon. 



front of fl. a 2f in. ; pod 5-6 in., cylindrical, distinctly torulose 

 with a sharp curved beak; seeds 3-8, bean-like, about 1 in. long. 



Low country; very common, and much planted. Fl. Feb.; scarlet, the 

 wings and keel crimson. 



Also throughout India and Malaya, Java, and Polynesia. 



When well grown this is a handsome tree; but as usually seen — 

 planted for hedges or as a support for climbing plants — it is a shabby 

 stunted bush. The brilliant flowers are produced when the branches are 

 bare of leaves, and give the plant the name of ' Coral-tree.' 



A variety with pale pink flowers is figured by Moon in his collection 

 of drawings in the Brit. Mus. labelled ' Ela-erabadu.' 



The indurated incurved tip of the lowest segm. of calyx prevents the 

 bud from opening, and the growing standard forces its point through the 

 cal. between the two upper teeth, and gradually splits it down the back. 



2. E. ovalifolia, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 53 (18 14). Yak-erabadu, S. 



E. fiicta, Moon Cat. 52 (?L.). Thw. Enum. 89. C. P. 3499. 

 Fl. B. Ind. ii. 189. Wight, Ic. t. 247. 



A moderate-sized tree with wide -spreading branches, 

 trunk covered with large pyramidal, corky, prickle-tipped 

 thorns, young branches as in last, but prickles brown, smaller 

 and sharper; buds pubescent; l.-rachis 4-5 in., glabrous, 

 stip. small, roundish, adpressed to rachis, soon disappearing, 

 lflts. 3I-4I in., broadly oval, on swollen stalks readily disarti- 

 culating, obtuse, glabrous on both sides, silvery-white beneath, 

 stipels wart-like, persistent ; fl. rather large, arranged as in 

 E. indica, with 2 small ovate bracts immediately beneath cal., 

 cal.campanulate completely closed and ending in a curved beak 

 in bud, afterwards splitting irregularly into several unequal 

 divisions, pod 6-10 in., shortly stalked, with a sharp beak, 

 curved, more or less torulose, very finely but densely downy, 

 6-10-seeded with partitions between them ; seed fin., oblong, 

 cylindrical, truncate at ends, black. 



Low country, by the banks of rivers and streams ; rather common. 

 Fl. January ; standard dark crimson, wings and keel purple. 

 Also in E. Bengal, Burma, Malaya, and Polynesia. 



[E. suberosa, Roxb., is given for Ceylon in Fl. B. Ind. ii. 190, but I do 

 not know on what authority. There are no specimens at Kew from 

 Ceylon.] 



E. lithosperma, BL, from Java (' Dadap ' of the Malays) ; E. umbrosa, 

 H. B. K., from Central America (' Madre de Cacao ') ; and E. vehctina^ 

 Willd., of the W. Indies are all frequently met with on estates, especially 

 of Cacao, planted as shade-trees. 



28. STRONGYLODON, Vog. 



Herbaceous twiner, 1. pinnately 3-foliolate, with stipels, fl. 

 in lax racemes; cal. campanulate with very short rounded im- 



