410 D. Prain — Some additional Leguminosse. [No. 2. 



61. APIOS Mcench. 

 Apios carnea Bth. 



Add to localities of F. B. I. : — Burma; Chin Hills, King's Collectors ! 

 Shan Hills, at Fort Stedman, King's Collectors ! 



62. ERYTHRINA Linn. 



1. Erythrina indica Lamk. 



This is, save when planted, a purely littoral species and is common in the jungles 

 along the sea-face from the Sundribuns at the head of the Bay of Bengal down the 

 Burmese and Tenasserim coasts, occurring also along the shores of the Andamans 

 and Nicobars ; it is as plentiful in remote outlying islets like Narcondam as it is in the 

 larger ones. In all probability it never occurs inland except as an introduced tree. 



2. Erythrina stricta Boxb. 



Add to localities of F. B. I. : — Assam, Manipur, Chittagong, 

 Burma, very common. 



This species is, on the other hand, apparently altogether an inland one ; it is, 

 to judge by the number of undoubtedly wild specimens sent to Herb. Calcutta, quite 

 as common in Indo-China as it is in India. 



In the F. B. I., E. spathacea Wall. (Lith. Cat. n. 5965) is cited as E. indica. In the 

 Catalogue Dr. Wallich only wrote " E. spathacea ? " ; on the sheets themselves he 

 wrote " E. stricta Eoxb. ; " further, he queries in the Catalogue whether the sheets 

 marked 5965 B. and 5965 C. are the same as 5965 A. Sheets B. and C. came from 

 Kamaon and Hard war respectively ; 5965 C. is not represented in Herb. Calcutta 

 and the writer cannot therefore express any opinion respecting it. But sheet 5965 

 A. at Calcutta, which came from a tree grown in the Calcutta garden, is as the 

 ticket upon it states, E. stricta and not E. indica, and sheet 5965 B. at Calcutta, col- 

 lected in Kamaon by Mr. Blinkworth, is E. suherosa Koxb. 



3. Erythrina resupinata Boxb. 



This interesting little species was found again in 1884 by Mr. C. B. Clarke on 

 Parasnath. 



5. Erythrina suberosa Boxb. 



Var. glabrescens ; leaflets as in type, but glabrescent beneath at an 

 early stage. 



North-West Himalaya ; Kamaon, Blinkworth ! Bashahr, Lace ! Sik- 

 kim; King! Burma ; Pegu, Adamson! Brandis ! Kurz ! Shan Hills, 

 King's Collectors ! 



This is, at first sight, very unlike E. suberosa owing to the absence of tomentum 

 from the under surface of the leaves ; the leaflets, however, are in shape and size 

 exactly as in typical E. suberosa while the flowers, pods and seeds are indistinguish- 

 able. In Langkawi, off the Kedah Coast, Mr. Curtis collected one specimen of an 

 Erythrina as to flowers exactly like this plant but with intensely prickly branchlets, — 

 one of the features of all the varieties of E. suberosa is that the branchlets 

 are almost unarmed. In the absence, however, of leaves and of fruits it is not 

 possible to identify Mr. Curtis' plant. Very near to this, if not actually the same 

 species, is E. microcarpa Koord. & Val. from Java, of which, however, the writer 

 has only seen leaves and pods, not flowers. 



