1876.] Knoivledge of the Burmese Flora. 243 



Leaves small, glabrous to the naked eye ; pods sessile ; flowers "white, . . . ,B. acuminata. 



1. B. feondosa, Boxb. Corom. PI. I. t. 21 and Fl. Ind. III. 244 ; 

 Hook. Bot. Misc. III. 102, and Wight 111. Ind. Bot. Suppl. 57. t. 32 ; 

 Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 176 ; Hf . Ind. Fl. II. 194. 



Hab. Frequent in the lower mixed and the dry forests, more especial- 

 ly however in the savannah-forests and entering even the tidal savannahs ; 

 all over Burmah, from Ava and Martaban down to Tenasserim. — Fl. March, 

 Apr. ; Fr. Apr., May. 



2. B. supeeba, Boxb. Corom. PL I. t. 22. and Fl. Ind. III. 247 ; 

 Hf. Ind. Fl. II. 195. 



Hab. Frequent in the mixed forests, especially the upper ones, all 

 over Bui-mah, from Arracan, Prome, and Martaban down to Upper Tenas- 

 serim.— Fl. March, Apr. ; Fr. May, June. 



3. B. paevibloba, Boxb. Fl. Ind. III. 248 ; WA. Prod. I. 261 ; 

 Wight Icon. t. 210. (Spatholohtis Boxburghii, Bth. in PL Jungh. I. 238 

 in adn. ; Hf. Ind. Fl. II. 193). 



Hab. Frequent in all mixed forests, especially the upper ones, enter- 

 ing also occasionally the tropical and open forests ; all over Chittagong, 

 Pegu, and Martaban down to Tenasserim. — Fl. Febr. — Apr. ; Fr. DS. 



4. B. acuminata, Wall. Cat. 5443. (Spatholohus acuminatus, Bth. 

 in PL Jungh. I. 238 in adn. ; Hf. Ind. Fl. II. 194). 



Hab. Frequent in the tropical forests all over Pegu and Martaban 

 down to Tenasserim ; also Chittagong. — Fl. Fr. HS. ' 



Erythrina, L. 

 Conspectus of Species. 

 * Wings of corolla much longer than the spathaceous calyx. 



x Pod bearing the few seeds at or towards the narrowed 

 end only, the lower sterile part greatly dilated as in Butea. 



Subg. 1. ILypaphorus, Hassk. Pods dehiscing at both sutures, the pilated sterile 

 part contracted into a stalk 1 — 2 in. long. Seeds 1 — 3, free. Flowers almost sessile. 

 Standard glabrous ; keel-petals wholly connate, obcordate and shortly acuminate in 



the sinus, E. lithosperma. 



Standard minutely velvety ; keel consisting of 2 obliquely oblong rather acute petals 



united at the middle only, E. holosericea. 



x x Pod many-seeded, seed-bearing from the base. 

 Suhg. 2. Enchassaingia, Warp. Pods fiat, torulose, opening only along the sinuate 

 outer suture, the dorsal suture prominent and straight. Seeds free, but usually 

 separated by spurious spongy septa. 



Glabrous, glaucous ; standard broad, notched ; pods minutely greyish-velvety, 



. . E. ovalifolia. 

 Stihff. 3. Stenotropis, Hassk. Pods torulose and almost moniliform, the valves 

 opening at both sutures and exposing the continuous pithy-chartaceous indehiscent 

 endocarp enclosing the seeds. 



