Erythrina] XLV. LEGUMIXOS.E 227 



Common on the coast, from the Sundriban to the Malay Peninsula. Andamans, 

 Nicobars. PI. Feb., March. A littoral species, widely spread from the Mascarenes to 

 Polynesia. Reported to be indigenous inland in deciduous forests of Thana, the Kon- 

 kan, and North Kauara. Cultivated and self-sown all over India, in hedge-rows in 

 Bengal. In the Peninsula grown to support the betel- and pepper-yine. 



2. E stricta, Roxb.; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 175. Vera. Taung Kathit, Btirm. 

 Trunk and branches armed with sharp conical prickles. Leaflets entire, 



nearly glabrous. Fl. scarlet, in dense unilateral racemes, 4-5 in. with 

 peduncle, several racemes at the ends of stout brauchlets. Calyx \-\ in., keel 

 half the length of standard, wings much smaller. Pod lanceolate, glabrous, 

 1-3-seeded, 2-4 in. long. 



Assam. Mani|nir. Chitta<rong. Burma common). West side of the Peninsula. PI. 

 Feb.-May. 



B. Calyx campanulate or turbinate, liinb truncate or split into 2 or more 

 divisions. 



3. E. suberosa, Roxb.; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 189.— Syn. E. sublobata, Roxb.; 

 Bedd. Manual S7. Vera. Pangra, Hind. Mar. ; DJiaul-dhak, Hind. 



A middle-sized tree, with a corky, deeply cracked bark. Brauchlets sparingly 

 armed with sharp stout conical whitish or light brown prickles, sometimes a 

 few scattered prickles on petioles. Brauchlets, underside of leaves and in- 

 florescence clothed with long soft bi- or tri-furcate hairs. Leaflets rhomboid, 

 entire or sinuate-lobed. Racemes 4-6 in. long. Calyx turbinate, 2-lipped, 

 keel half the length of standard, wings minute. Pod narrow, 3-4 in. long, 

 2- L-seeded. 



Subhimalayan tract, from the Ravi to the Sarda, ascending to 3,000 ft. Oudh 

 forests, Merwara. Burma. PI. March, April. A variety with full-grown leaves 

 glabrous, in Kumaiin. Sikkim, I'pimt and Lower Burma. 



4. E. ovalifolia, Roxb. : Wight ie. t. 247. Vera. Kdn Kathit, Burm. 



Trunk and luanches armed with dark brown prickles, arising from pyra- 

 midal corky tubercles. Leaflets elliptic or elliptic-oblong, obtuse, glabrous, 

 whitish beneath. Racemes lax. 5-10 in. long, several at the ends of brauchlets. 

 Calyx campanulate, splitting irregularly into 2 or more unequal divisions. 

 Corolla deep blood-red, standard obovate, emarginate, 1A in. Keel 1 in., wings 

 i in. long. Pod torulose, 6-8 in. long, finely downy, constricted between the 



&-8 seeds. 



Silliet. I.uuvr Bengal. Plains of Lower Burma. Fl. Feb., March. Ceylon, Malay 

 Archipelago, Polynesia. 



5. E. arborescens, Roxb. Cor. PI. t. 219; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 190. 



Few prickles on branched and petioles. Leaflets, when lull grown, nearly 



glabrous. .", -7 iu. |on.j; and equally broad. Fl. vivid scarlet, racemes with 



peduncle up to LB in. long. Calyx turbinate, silky pubescent, limb truncate 

 or unequally lobed. Standard ovate, acuminate, concave, more than twice the 

 length of keel, wings shorter than keel. I'od lanceolate curved, brown- 

 pubescent; seeds 2-10. 



Outer Himalaya, Er Kumaun eastward, 1,000 7,000 ft., Khasi hills. Melghat, 



Berar March L877, D.B.). Fl. &.ug. Oct. 



\ remarkable undershrub is 6. B. reaupinata, Roxb. Cor. PL t. 220, in the Savannahs 

 of the subhimalayan tract from Oudh eastward, also on Parasnath. From a perennial 

 rootstocK, after the fires of the hot season, spring short racemes of large bright si 

 il., calyx 2-lipped, standard bent downwards, After the it. comes up a short her- 

 ba< ""Us leal \ stem. 



7. E. lithosperma, Miq. ; Kurz. F. Fl. i. 367. Vein. Ye-Kathit, Burm. 

 A large tree, Leafless in U.S.. bark white, trunk and branches armed 

 with straight sharp prickles, foliage dark green, young shoots mealy-puber- 



