Erythrina. | LEGUMINOSH. 367 
Leaflets glabrous, aeenent’ 4 calyx spathaceou E. stricta. 
Leaflets more or les a yakerernt or puberalons, beneath, blunt ; 
yx 2-lobed, spathaceo E. suberosa. 
1. E. holosericea, Kz. —A fe ee eke Bede with short 
black sharp prickles, the young shoots mealy-puberulous ; leaves 
3-foliolate, on a 3-4 in, long petiole, glabrous, exactly agreeing with 
those of the following species, the stipulary glands large ; leaflets 
more or less ovate, on a 2-3 lin. long petiolule, acuminkte, 3-5 in, 
4 long, entire, chartaceous or membranous ; flowers large, apparent] 
: scarlet with purple wings and keel, almost sessile, by 2-3 clustered 
E and forming a tawny mealy-tomentose raceme; calyx shortly resu- 
pinate-spathaceous, brown-villous, tawny- silky within, 4-5 lin. long ; 
standard nearly 14 in. long, siie stapkee blunt, minutely vel- 
vety, the wings falcate-oblong, blunt, about } as long, the keel about 
# in, long, consisting of 2 obliquely ophons rather acute shortly 
clawed petals united along the median part and hence appearing 
2-lobed ; ovary shortly tawny villous, 
Has.—Pegu, Tharrawaddi district. 
2. E. lithosperma, Miq.; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 190.— Yea-hathit.— 
A tree (50— 604 20 20—30 +4—6), leafless in H.S., the trunk and 
branches armed with short sharp prickles arising from pustules, the 
very young shoots mealy-puberulous ; leaves 3-foliolate, on a 3-5 
in. long petiole, the stipulary glands large; leaflets more or less 
ovate, the lateral ones somewhat obliquely so, on a strong 3-4 lin. 
long petiolule, acuminate, 4-5 in. long, entire, chartaceous, glab- 
rous, patougsie’ beneath; flowers rather large, scarlet, with 
whitish wings and keel, slinivek sessile, clustered by 2-3 and form- 
ing a eg hana raceme arising from the axils of the upper 
young leaves at the end of the branchlets; calyx ample, tawny- 
velvety tomentose outside, silvery silky inside, 2 2-cleft, about 4 lin, 
one or somewhat longer; standard elliptically oblong with a short 
ot 3 wings as aeihe ong as the keel, aioe g cuneate-obovate; pods 
a 1-2 i in. long stalk, 4-5 in. long, chartaceous, glabrous, much 
flattened and dilated at the lower sterile half, the upper contracted 
part bearing 1-3 seeds, subulate-acuminate ; seeds free, large, — 
mai brown. ' 
aB.—Common along streams in the hill savannah and upper mixed fores 
allen — Page and Martaban.—Fl. Jan.-Febr.; Fr. Mareh-Apr—s. eee 
RemMarxks.— Wood soft, yellowish. 
3. E. ovalifolia, Roxb. ; H.f. Ind. Fl. ii. 189; Bedd. Syly. Madr, 
88.—Kone-kathit.—A tree (40—50 + 15—20 + 8—4), shedding 
