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[ Erythrina . 
into a distinct stipes. Wings and keel nearly similar, all free, obovate, and about 
Jin. long. Pod much contracted between the seeds, often attaining 9in. to 1ft. 
Seeds few, large, red, distant. — Wight, Ic. t. 58. 
Hab.: Islands of the N. coast, B. Brown ; Port Denison, Fitzalan; Tallegalla, J. Marquis. In 
flower November. 
Common in East India and the Archipelago, and often planted for shade or ornament.— Benth. 
Wood of a straw colour, very light and soft ; does not seem to be much attacked by insects. — 
Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods No. 118. 
8. E. insularis (an island tree), Bail. Ql. Agri. Journ. i., pt. 3. A spreading- 
headed tree about 15 to 20ft. high, bark light-coloured, smooth, the trunk and 
branches unevenly round, giving the idea of a hard-wooded tree; the ends of the 
branches or branchlets slightly velvety as well as the foliage, but being late in the 
season most of the leaves had fallen at the time my specimens were obtained ; 
I could not find a single prickle upon the tree from which the seeds were obtained, 
but another tree, upon which some few leaves still remained, had a few pairs 
of minute mahogany-coloured ones. Leaves smaller but very similar to E. indica, 
or between that species and E. vespertilio. No flowers seen. Fruiting raceme 
3 or 4in. long, upon a peduncle of about 6in., pods crowded, pedicels lin. 
long, solitary or 2 or 3 together. Pods seldom exceeding 5 or 6in., abruptly 
terminating in a prominent recurved point, at the base a more or less portion is 
seedless and much narrowed, the rest of the pod almost moniliform, the contrac- 
tions between the seeds very irregular, often long and narrow. Seeds red, 
subovate, about 5 lines long, persistent after the opening of the pods. 
Hab.: Turtle Island, June, 1897. 
4. E. phlebocarpa (pods veined), Bail. Ql. Agri. Journ. i., pt. 5. Deciduous 
tree; branchlets thick and more or less covered with small black prickles. Petioles 
nearly terete, about 8in. long, unarmed. Leaflets 3, membranous, the terminal 
one often Tin. long and 8in. broad, on a petiolule of about Jin. at the end of a 
rhachis of about 2 Jin., rhomboidal in form ; the lateral leaflets smaller but very 
similar in form, on petiolules of about Jin. Stipellfe gland-like. Peduncles 
terminal, stout, unarmed or a minute prickle or two near the base, 5 or 6in. long, 
or with the raceme sometimes 15in. Flowers crowded, red, usually in whorls of 
4 upon the rhachis, the whorls scarcely Jin. apart. Pedicels 4 lines long. Calyx 
campanulate, oblique at the top, about 6 lines long, marked with longitudinal 
lines. Standard 2in. long, slightly recurved, tapering towards the base, about 7 
or 8 lines broad when expanded, but usually infolded and so appearing narrower, 
apex acuminate : wings and keel petals oblique-oblong, about as long as the calyx. 
Pod 1 or 2-seeded, 3 to 5in. long, about lin. broad over the seeds, much con- 
stricted between them, with a long seedless base and long acuminate apex ; the 
exocarp marked on the outside by strong reticulate veins, endocarp separating 
from the exocarp and long retaining the seeds. Seeds oblong, red, 7 lines long, 
4 lines broad, flat on the bottom or hilum side, and showing a rather sharp 
longitudinal ridge on the upper side. Allied to E. indica, Linn. 
Hab.: Newcastle Bay, Cape York Peninsula, Frank L. Jardine. 
56. STRONGYLODON, Vogel. 
(Referring to rounded teeth of calyx.) 
Calyx campanulate, gibbous ; teeth short, obtuse, imbricate. Corolla much 
exserted. Standard lanceolate, recurved ; wings obtuse, more than a third as 
long ; keel curved, as long as the standard, narrowed into a beak. Stamens 
diadelphous ; anthers uniform. Ovary stalked, ovules few. Style filiform, 
beardless, stigma capitate. Pod oblong, turgid. Seeds with a hilum running 
more than half round. — Twining herbs, with the habit of Phaseolus, with 
stipellate 3-foliolate leaves. Flowers in long lax racemes. 
