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CALYCI FLORAE. 
older branches aculeate; the younger branches unarmed, terete, 
glabrous. Leaflets petiolulated, the terminal one rhomboideo- 
ovate, the lateral ones broad ovate, unequilateral and as if trun- 
cated at the base, bluntish, glabrous (when young puberulous 
beneath), sub-3-nerved at the base (the other nerves being less 
distinct, and wavy), delicately veined : petiole elongated, sub- 
terete, unarmed, glabrous : petiolules greenish, when young 
puberulous. Stipules lanceolate, bluntish, deciduous : stipels 
small oblong, glanduloso-porose at the apex. Racemes axillary, 
length of the leaf, solitary, bearing a number of showy bright 
scarlet pedicelled flowers, 2-3 together. Calyx ^ of an inch in 
length, subcampanulate, truncated, subentire with exception of 
a thickened bluntish tooth beneath. Standard 2 inches in 
length, rather longer than the stamens, lineari-oblong, obtuse, 
straight, of a bright scarlet colour ; wings nearly twice the size 
of the keel, of a pale blush colour, veined, somewhat obovate in 
shape : keel in two pieces, dimidiato-orbiculate. Stamens 9 
and 1 (the 10th, accrete to the others for | of an inch), unequal 
in length, of a crimson colour : anthers lineari-lanceolate. 
Ovary pedicelled, linear, compressed, subglabrous : style elon- 
gated, subulate, slightly curved, tinged with crimson : stigma 
simple. Legume 6-7 inches long, cylindrical, torulose, with a 
long filiform beak at the apex, 4-6 seeded : seeds oval, 
scarcely compressed, of a bright scarlet with a black spot below 
the hilum. 
This species may be distinguished from the following, by 
the flower being of a deep crimson, and by the standard being 
narrow and not reflected. 
2. Erythrina velutina. Velvety JErythrina. 
Stem arboreous prickly, leaflets rounded at both 
ends stellato-pubescent above hoary and stellato-velu- 
tino-tomentose beneath, the terminal leaflet trans- 
versely elliptic, calyx spathe-shaped 5-denticulated 
tomentose, standard elliptic reflected. 
Willd. Sp. Pl. III. 904. — II. B. 4 Kunth , nov. gen. Am. VI. 
435. — Bot. Mag. 3227. 
HAB. In the plains. 
FL. April. 
A tree, 20-30 feet in height : branches spreading, armed 
with scattered short black conical prickles, velutino-tomentose 
towards their extremities. Leaves situated at the ends of 
the branches ; leaflets petiolulated, broad-ovate, (the terminal 
one being broader than it is long) rounded and sometimes 
emarginate at the apex, nerved with the lowest pair of nerves 
arising from the base of the mid-rib, rendering the leaf sub-3- 
nerved, veined, green and stellato-puberulous above, rufescenti- 
