216 



Ref. — "Erythrma senegalensis" in Les Vegetaux Utiles de 

 L'Afrique Tropicale Francaise, Chevalier, Fasc. iii. pp. 105-108, 

 illustrated (A. Challamel, Paris, 1907.) 



Erythrina suberifera, Welw. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. II. p. 183. 



Vernac. name. — Molungo (Golungo Alto, Welwitsch). 



Angola. 



Bark and root reputed by the Natives of Angola as an efficient 

 remedy for secondary syphilis, used in the form of a decoction, to 

 which the same virtues are attributed as to Sarsaparilla. 



The trunk resists the forest fires, renewing its branches after being 

 burnt nearly to the heart. 



Flowers in Golungo Alto twice a year, and is strongly recommended 

 to Horticulturists (Hiern. Cat, Welw. Afr. PL i. p. 250). 



Erythrina umbrosa, H. B. & K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. PL vi. p. 434. 



Tree furnished with recurved prickles ; branches scattered, 

 pendulous ; young branches thick, nearly round, smooth glabrous. 

 Leaves with long petioles, ternate ; leaflets petiolate, sub-acuminate 

 base truncate-rotundate, entire, reiiculate, trinerved, primary nerves 

 and veins prominent on the underside, membranous, glabrous deep- 

 green and shining above, paler below, terminal leaflet remote from 

 the lateral ones, equal-sided, almost deltoid, lateral lobes rotundate 

 6^ in. long, G in. broad, the lateral ones smaller, unequal-sided, 

 deltoid-ovate, 5-5 \ in. long ; petiole about 5 lin. long, glabrous ; 

 common petiole terete, channelled on the upper side, glabrous, 

 7-8 in. long. Spikes solitary, on subterminal branchlets, pedunculate, 

 pendulous, about 7 in. long ; peduncle terete, glabrous. Flowers 

 few, 2\ in. long. Calyx campanulate, divided above ; lobes acute, 

 veined, coloured, glabrous, ^-in. long, persistent. Corolla glabrous ; 

 petals sessile ; standard very long, (2|-2j in.) linear cuneate, 

 rounded at the apex, emarginate, very acute at the base, scarlet, 

 9 lin. broad in the upper part. Stamens 10, in two bundles. 

 Ovary tomentose. Pod 8-12 in. long, torulose, baaked, many seeded. 

 Seeds ovate- oblong in outline. 



Vernac. names. — Bucare, Madre de Cacao, Bois immortelle (Porto 

 Rico and S. America, Cook & Collins). 



Botanic Garden, Old Calabar. 



Grown in many tropical countries as a shade tree for Cacao 

 {Theobroma Cacao). 



Cultivation as under E. indica, iilhosperma, &c. 



MUCUNA, Adans. 



Mucuna aterrima, comb. nov. 



[Stizolobium aterrimum, Piper & Tracy, U.S. Dept. Agric. Bureau 

 of PL Industry, Bull. No. 179, 1910, p. 18.] 



An annual. Vine very strong and vigorous, the stem striate but 

 scarcely furrowed, covered with a soft, sparse pubescence. Leaflets 

 very large, plane, mostly acute, strongly mucronate, sparsely appressed 

 — pubescent on each side. Racemes pendent, \.\-%\ ft. long, many 

 flowered ; flowers purple ; calyx not saccate, densely appressed — 

 pubescent without and within • pods falcate, about 4 in. long, 

 black when mature, sparsely covered with a short, white, appressed 

 pubescence ; median ridge on valves, prominent but sometimes 

 broken ; secondary ridge faint or wanting ; seeds 4 or 5, oblong, 

 black, very shiny, about \ in. long, the prominent hilum white. 



