134 Leguminosae — Evythrina. 
27. ERYTHRINA. 
Trees or shrubs, branches often thick and beset with prickles. 
Leaves pinnately trifoliolate. Flowers showy, usually bright 
scarlet, in terminal racemes. Standard petal larger and longer 
than the wings and keel. Calyx spathaceous, truncate, rarely 
almost equally 5-toothed. Pod stalked. About twenty-five 
species are distributed over the warmer regions. The name is 
from épvOpos, red, the prevalent colour of the flowers. None of 
the Coral trees are hardy, but some of them will succeed in 
sheltered places if treated as herbaceous, and cut down each 
season. 
1. £. Crista-galli (fig. 75).—In its native country this is 
arborescent, but it will throw up annual flowering stems about 
Miz. 75, Eiythyrina Crista-galli, (} nat. size.) 
6 or 8 feet high. The flowers are deep scarlet, and the leaves 
have a glaucous tinge. A native of Brazil. 
