ERYTHR1NA STRICTA. (Nat. order Leguminosee.) 



EUYTHRINA. Linn.— GEN. CHAR. Calyx campanulate or cylindrical, obliquely truncate or slit on the upper side, entire or toothed. 

 Standard broad or long, erect or recurved, narrowed at the base, without appendages ; wings short, often minute or none ; keel short, the petals united or 

 free. Stamens all united at the base, the upper one often free from the middle, anthers reniform. Ovary stipitate, with several ovules, style subulate, 

 oblique at the end, with a small stigma. Pod stipitate, linear-falcate, acuminate, narrowed at the base, more or less contracted between the seeds, 2 

 valved, usually pithy between the seeds. Seeds distant, ovoid or oblong, with a lateral oblong hilum, not strophiolate. Erect trees or shrubs, rarely 

 tall herbs, the trunk, branches, and often the petioles armed with conical prickles- Leaflets S, usually broad, entire or 3-lobed, the stipellse usually 

 gland-lik. Stipules small. Racemes axillary, or, if terminal, leafy at the base. Flowers large, usually Ired, in clusters of 2 or 3 on lateral nodes along 

 the peduncle. Bracts small or none. — Micropteryx, Duchassaingia and Macrocyuibium, Walps- Stenotropis and] Hypaphorus, Hassk. Chirocalyx: 

 Meissn. 



JuRYTHRINA STRICTA. (Roxb.) A large tree armed with numerous white prickles, stipules falcate, petioles sometimes 

 prickly, leaves unarmed, leaflets glabrous entire, the terminal one reniform-cordate pointed ; racemes terminal horizontal, calyx spa- 

 thaceous entire acute short, vexillum about 10 times as long as the calyx and twice the length of the keel, keel 4-5 times longer 

 than the alse, its petals united. Stamens monadelphous with the sheath entire at the base, diadelphous upwards, ovary 4-8 ovuled, 

 legume usually 2-3 seeded. Roxb. Fl. Lid. iii. p. 251 ;—WA. Prod. p. 260. 



This tree is very common on the western side of the Madras Presidency ; the v)ood is soft, light and spongy (as in all the other 

 Erythrinas) ; it is employed as a substitute for deal, and is much in use in the manufacture of toys, trunks, dc. and is afterwards varnished, its 

 large pores admitting and retaining/ the varnish better than almost any other viood, the wood is not liable to warp, contract, or split. 



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