366 LEGUMINOSH. [ Erythrina. 
pinnately 3-foliolate, on a slender 14-24 in. long glabrescent petiole ; 
eaflets more or less oblong to elliptically oblong, on a 2 lin. long 
pubescent peticlule, longer or shorter and abruptly acuminate, 13 
to 24 in. long, chartaceous, glabrous and glossy above, beneath, 
especially on the midrib, minutely and sparingly appressed puberu- 
lous or almost glabrous; flowers small, white, on slender 2-3 lin. 
long puberulous pedicels, fascicled-racemose and forming small 
slender gre¥ish puberulous almost sessile panicles above the scars of 
allen leaves; calyx about 2 lin. long, puberulous, the lo 
broad and blunt; pods sessile, tawny puberulous, especially along | 
the thickened straight outer suture, oblong to linear-oblong, | 
rounded at the base, 2 to nearly 3 in. long. | 
Haz.—Frequent in the tropical forests all over Pegu and Martaban down to | 
Tenasserim.—F'l. Fr. H.S.—s : _—SS.—SiS.—Metam. 
racemes. Bracts small or none. 
* Wings much longer than the calyx. 
© Seeds 1-3, at the end of the wing-like dilated 2-valved 
sterile part of the butea-shaped pod. 
Standard minutely velvety ; keel-petals free at the base and at the . 
summi % . < : : it : : . E. holosericea. 
Standard glabrous; keel-petals connate, obcordate and shortly 
acuminate in the sinus; pod on a 1-2 in. long stalk . . B. lithosperma. 
© © Pods greyish-velvety, fertile from the base. 
Pod flat, torulose, opening along the sinuate outer suture, the dorsal 
rominent and straight ; seeds . y ee 
_ _ separated by spurious spongy septa; glabrous, glaucous . 2. ovalifolia. 
_ Pods torulose or almost moniliform, dehiscing at both sutures ; seeds 
_ enclosed in the i i indehiscent 
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2: ~Wings minute, as long or shorter than the calyx, Pods 
— folliele-like, opening along the ventral suture, Seeds 
