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Propagates readily from seed or cuttings, and grows quickly. 

 Cultivated in India as a support for the betel pepper (Gamble, I.e.), 

 Adapted for making hedges, for ornamental purposes, and the 

 loppings are valuable as green manure. 



Erythrina lithosperma, Blume ex Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. i. p. 209. 



A tall tree, with prickly stem. Branchlets often unarmed. Leaflets 

 membranous, glabrous, greenish, the end one roundish, acute, 4-6 in. 

 long. Racemes pilose, contemporaneous with the leaves. Calyx 

 velvety, £-§ in. long, finally splitting down nearly to the base in two 

 lips. Standard lj-l£ in. long ; the limb, oblong, obtuse ; keel and 

 wing sub- equal, \ in. long. Pod much recurved, 4-5 in. long, 

 broader in lower half, with a stalk reaching 1^-lf in. long. (Fl. Brit. 

 India, ii. p. 190). 



III. — Vidal, Fl. For. Filip. t. 41a ; Brandis, Indian Trees, 

 p. 228, f. 97. 



Vernac. names. — Dadap; Mienjak(Buitenzorg, Greshoff) ; Yekatbit 

 (Burma, Gamble). 



Native of Burma and Malaya ; distributed to Java, the 

 Philippines, &c. 



Grown as a shade tree in Java, Ceylon, &c. The loppings are 

 utilized for green manure, said to yield after five months as much 

 as 4000 lb., or after 12 months, about 15,000 lb. per acre of fresh green 

 material ; containing 0*85 per cent, of nitrogen in the fresh state, 

 the equivalent of about 2100 lb. of castor cake per acre per year 

 (Bull. Imp. Inst. 1906, p. 124.) 



The bark is used in medicine in Buitenzorg (Mus. Kew). 



May be propagated readily from cuttings (4 or 5 feet long) or 

 seeds. Cuttings will make fairly good trees in little more than six 

 months, and come to maturity in about two years. 



Erj/thrina senegalensis, DC. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. II. p. 181. 



III. — Ralph, Ic. Carp. t. 32 f . 9 (E. guineensis), Pobeguin, Fl. Guin. 

 Franc, t. 51 ; Chevalier, Les Veg. Util. L'Afriq. Trop. Franc. Fasc. iii. 

 t. 6 (Photo-micrographs of wood sections). 



Vernac. names. — Logun-sese (Lagos, MacGregor)*, Ologun wun 

 sheshe (Lagos, Foster) ; Esanigbakehe (Benin, Dennett) ; Jinjiria 

 (Hausa, Parsons); Telimu (Sierra Leone, Scott Elliot); [Houndieul 

 (Ouloff) ; Serou (Malinke) ; Fousente-Farate (Diola) Chevalier']. 



Lagos ; Old Calabar ; Asaba ; Kontagora ; Borgu ; and widely 

 distributed in West Africa. 



Bark used by the Natives, East Africa (Kirk. Herb. Kew). A 

 medicine for small children, Sierra Leone (Scott Elliot, Herb. Kew). 



The wood is soft, readily attacked by insects, and when freshly cut 

 emits a strong and objectionable odour, It is white, fibrous, with a 

 red heart ; used for making light planks (Chevalier, Les Veg. Util. 

 L'Afr. Trop. Franc, iii. p. 108). 



Grown as hedges or palisades. 



Grows freely from cuttings (strong shoots or stout pieces of the 

 branches). 



Found in wooded places, Kontagora (Dalziel, Herb. Kew) ; on 

 laterite hills, Sierra Leone (Scott Elliot, Herb. Kew) ; sparingly in 

 stony country, and also in the Manghi Hills, Bornu (Parsons, Herb. 

 Kew) ; common in the scrubby lands of Borgu where it is also 

 planted over graves by the natives (Barter, Herb. Kew). 



