444 PHANER0GAM1A. 



flowers in a compound cyme or a cymose cluster of short racemes. 

 Pedicels 3 to 7 inches long. Calyx canescent, and hispid with a few 

 scattered bristles; the lower lobe triangular-lanceolate, twice the 

 length of the ovate and obtuse lateral ones, which are shorter than 

 the ovate upper lip. Corolla "green" as large as in M. monosperma 

 (2 inches long) . Legume oval, flat, 4 inches long and 2 inches wide, 

 and still immature, very hispid with rusty and short prurient bristles, 

 which are soon deciduous ; each membranaceous valve produced at the 

 sutures into a narrow wing-like margin, and its face strongly lamellate 

 with obliquely transverse and nearly straight salient plates. Seeds 

 apparently about 3. 



72. EEYTHRINA, Linn. 



1. Ertthrina macrophylla, DC? 



Hab. Kio Janeiro, Brazil. (Terminal leaflets only, 12 to 15 inches 

 long.) 



2. Ertthrina Indica, Lam. 



Hab. Feejee Islands. Tongatabu. Samoan and Society Islands. 

 " Introduced, abundant : often cultivated by the natives." 



3. Ertthrina monosperma, Gaud. 



Erythrina monosperma, Gaud. Bot. Freyc. Voy. p. 486, t. 114; Hook. & Am. Bot. 

 Beech. Voy. p. 81. 



Hab. Oahu, Sandwich Islands; on the Kaala Mountains, in the 

 district of Waianae. (In fruit.) 



The specific name is badly chosen, since the torose, at length dehis- 

 cent pod frequently matures two seeds, and perhaps more, as the 

 ovary has as many as five ovules. The leaflets are for the most part 



