Eryfhrlna] XLY. LEaUMINOSiE 227 



Common ou the coast, from the Sundriban to the Malay Peninsula. Anclamans, 

 Nicobarb . Fl. Feb., March. A littoral species, widely spread from the Mascarenes to 

 Polynesia. Reported to be indigenous inland in deciduous forests of Thana, the Kon- 

 kan, and Korth Kanara. Cultivated and self-sown all over India, in hedge-rows in 

 Bengal. In the Peninsula grown to suj>port the betel- and pepj^er-vine. 



2. E stricta, Roxb. ; Bedel. M. Sylv. t. 175. Tern. Taung Kafliif^ Burm. 

 Trunk and branches armed with sharp conical prickles. Leaflets entire^ 



nearly glabrous. FL scarlet^ in dense unilateral racemes^ 4-5 in. with 

 peduncle, several racemes at the ends of stout branchlets. Calyx |-| in., keel 

 half the lenejth of standard, wings much smaller. Pod lanceolate, "glabrous, 

 1-3-seeded, 2—4 in. long. 



Assam, Manipur, Chittagong. Burma (common). West &ide of the Peninsula. Fl. 

 Feb.-May. 



B. Calyx campanulate or turbinate, limb truncate or split into 2 or more 

 divisions. 



3. E. suberosa, Roxb.; PL Brit. Ind. ii. 189.— Sj-n. E. mblohata^ Eoxb.; 

 Bedd, Manual 87. Vern. Pcmgra^ Hind. Mar. ; Dhaul-clhak^ Hind. 



A middle-sized tree, with a corky, deeply cracked bark. Branchlets sparingly 

 armed with sharp stout conical whitish or light brown prickles, sometimes a 

 few scattered prickles on petioles. Branchlets, underside of leaves and in- 

 florescence clothed with long soft bi- or tri-furcate hairs. Leaflets rhomboid, 

 entire or sinuate-lobed. Racemes 4-6 in. long. Calyx turbinate, 2-lipped, 

 keel half the length of standard, wings minute. Pod narrow, 3-4 in. long, 

 2-4-seeded. 



Subhimalayaii tract, from the Kavi to the Sarda, ascending to 3,000 ft. Oudh 

 forests, Merwara, Burma. Fl. March, April. A variety with fultgrown leaves 

 glabrous, in Kumaun, Sikkim, Upper and Lower Burma, 



4. E. ovalifolia, Roxb. ; Wight Ic. t. 247. Vern. Kdn Katliity Burm. 

 Trunk and branches armed Avith dark brown prickles, arising from pyra- 



midal corky tubercles. Leaflets elliptic or elliptic-oblong, obtuse, glabrous^ 

 whitish beneath. Racemes lax, 5-10 in. long, several at the ends of branchlets. 

 Calyx campanulate, splitting irregularly into 2 or more unequal divisions. 

 Corolla deep blood-red, standard obovate, emarginate, 1\ in. Keel 1 in., wings 

 I in. long. Pod torulose, 6-8 in. long, finely downy, constricted between the 

 6-8 seeds. 



Silhet, Lower Bengal. Plains of Lower Burma. Fl. Peb., March, Ceylon, Malay 

 Archipelago, Polynesia. 



5. E. arborescens, Roxb. Cor. PL t. 219; El. Brit. Ind. ii. 190. 



Pew prickles on branches and petioles. Leaflets, when full grown, nearly 

 glabrous, 5-7 in. long and equally broad. PL vivid scaidet, racemes (with 

 peduncle) up to 15 in. long. Calyx turbinate, silky pubescent, limb truncate 

 or unequally lobed. Standard ovate, acuminate, concave, more than twice the 

 length of keel, wings shorter than keel. Pod lanceolate curved, brown- 

 pu,bescent ; seeds 2-10. 



Outer Himalaya, from Kumaun eastward, 4,000~7j000 ft., Kha&i hills. Melghat, 

 Berar (March 1877, P.B.). PL Aug.~Oot. 



A remarkable undershrub is 6. E. resupinata, Eoxb. Cor. PL t. 220, in the Savannahs 

 of the subhimalayan tract from Oudh eastward, also on Parasnath. Prom a perennial 

 rootstock, after the fires of the hot season, spring short racemes of large bright scarlet 

 ii., calyx 2-lipped, standard bent downwards. After the fi. comes up a short hei*- 

 baceous leafy stem. 



7. E. lithosperma, Miq. ; Kurz, P. M. i. 367. Vern. Ye^Kathif^ Burm, 

 A large tree, leafless in H.S., bark white, trunk and branches armed 

 with straight sharp prickles, foliage dark green, young shoots mealy-puber- 



