250 xliv. leguminoSjE. \Erythrina 



35. ERYTHE.INA L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 531. 



1. E. suberifera Welw. ex Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 

 p. 183 ; Ficalho, PI. Uteis, p. 140. 



Erythrina suberosa Welw. Synopse, p. 30, n. 73 ; non Roxb. 

 Corallodendron suberifera 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PL i. p. 173 (1891), 



Golungo Alto.— A tree, 15 to 25 ft. high ; trunk 12 to 20 in. in 

 diam. at the base ; bark thickly corky, cracked ; branches spreading 

 irregularly or patent ; calyx spathaceous, clothed with a cinnabar-red 

 tomentum, 5-clef t at the apex ; lobes obovate-spathulate ; standard 

 twice as long as the calyx ; pods 2 to 2£ in. long, cylindrical-com- 

 pressed, deeply torulose, quickly dehiscent. Abundant at the borders 

 of primitive forests as a tree, and formerly cultivated as a small tree 

 of 5 to 8 ft. or even as a shrub of 3 to 4 ft., in secondary thickets and 

 reed-beds. Flowers twice in a year, namely in April and Sept. The 

 trunk resists the most vehement forest-fires, sending out after the 

 occurrence of rain leafy and flowering shoots from the trunk burnt 

 nearly to the heart. A very splendid species, much recommended to 

 horticulturists. Native name, " Molungo." In the forests of Sobato 

 de Mussengue, as vast trees, in ripe fr. Oct. 1854 ; fl. and young fr. 

 April 1856. No. 2230. In rather open forests along the banks of the 

 stream Cuango, and neighbourhood ; young fr. July 1855. No. 2229. 

 Bark whitish-chestnut, corky ; flowers deep red-scarlet ; pods dehis- 

 cent ; seeds scarlet, with a black oblong umbilicus. Canguerange ; 

 fr. Oct. 1854. Coll. Caep. 399. Between Sange and Mussengue ; 

 fr. June and August 1856 and 1857. Coll. Cakp. 400, 401, and (a 

 specimen of the wood) 950. 



The Molungo is a small tree, very common on the stony slopes of the 

 interior districts of Angola, especially in Cazengo, Golungo Alto and 

 Ambaca ; it is distinguished among all the rest of the trees of this region- 

 by its corky bark, resembling that of the cork-oak of Portugal, with 

 which however it has nothing more in common. Both the bark of this 

 tree and its root are reputed by the natives as an efficacious remedy for 

 secondary syphilis in the form of a decoction, the same virtues being 

 attributed to it as to sarsaparilla. See Welw. Synopse, p. 30 n. 73. 



2. E. huillensis Welw. ex Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 183. 

 Corallodendron huillense O. Kuntze, I.e., p. 173. 



Huilla. — A small tree, 8 to 15 ft. high, patently branched ; bark 

 not corky, rather smooth ; stem and branches whitish, aculeate ; both 

 surfaces of the younger leaves the peduncles and calyces tomentose ; 

 flowers bright-red ; calyx deeply 5-clef t at the apex ; pods moniliform. 

 Sporadic, in mixed primitive forests along the banks of the river 

 Monino, in company with species of Proteaceaa, Sesban, etc. ; fl. Dec. 

 1859, in leaf and fallen fr. April 1860 ; at an elevation of about 

 5000 ft. No. 2231. Lopollo ; fr. May 1860. Coll. Carp. 402. 



Coll. Caep. 403 is the dehiscent fruit of a tree with deciduous 

 leaves cultivated in the Lisbon botanical garden in August 1861, and 

 is apparently Erythrina poianthes Brot., a species which has been long 

 cultivated in Portugal. 



36. STIZOLOBIUM P. Br. Hist. Jamaic. p. 290 (1756). Mucuna 

 Adans. (1763) ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 533. 



1. S. mens Pers. Syn. PL ii. p. 299 (1807). 

 Mucuna urens Medik. in Vorles. Ohurpf. Phys. Ges. ii. p. 399 

 (1787); Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 185. 



