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ERYTHRINA speciosa. — 
Showy Erythrina. s, 
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DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. | 
- Nat. ord. LEGUMINOSE. Juss. gen. 345. Sect. V. 
ERYTHRINA. Supré vol. 4. fol. 313. 
E. speciosa, foliis ternatis subtus aculeatis, petiolis inermibus, caule acule- 
ato. Hort. Kew. ed. 23. 4. 252. 
E. speciosa. And. bot. rep. 443. ae easy 
Caulis aculeatus, viridis, glaberrimus. Folia ternata, longissimé petio- 
lata, cum caule Periculata ; stipule parve, obovato-lanceolate, dimidiate, 
glaberrime; petiolus teres, glaberrimus, basi incrassatus colore intensiore, 
foliolis longior. Foliola magna, plana, glabra, acuminata, nervis primariis 
aculeatis, margine sinuata, cum petiolo communi geniculis teretibus, atro- 
viridibus, pube ferrugineo obtectis, bast utrinque 1-2 glandulosis, connata: 
lateralia rhombea, inequilateralia; terminale laté-ovatum subtrilobum. — 
We had no opportunity of describing the flowers of this 
species of Eryrurina. In elegance and beauty of blossom 
it is superior to most of its congeners, with the exception 
of the much more common Eryturina Crista Galli, — 
The plant is of rather unfrequent occurrence in collec- 
tions. Our drawing was made from a plant which flowered 
in the collection of Comtesse de Vandes, at Bayswater. 
Native of the West Indies, and introduced to this 
country, upon the authority of the Hortus Kewensis, in 
1805. . . 
Stem prickly, green, and quite smooth. Leaves ternate, 
upon very long stalks, jointed with the stem ; stipules small, 
obovate-lanceolate, halved, quite smooth; stalk round, 
smooth, thickened at the base, and of a darker colour 
there; longer than the leaflets, which are large, flat, smooth, 
and drawn to a point, with the principal nerves prickly ; 
sinuose at the edge, and united with the common stalk by 
means of round and dark green joints, which are covered 
sparingly with a ferruginous pubescence, and have each one 
or two glands on each side of their base; the lateral leaflets 
are rhomboid, and with sides of unequal breadth ; the ter- 
minal one is broadly ovate and obsoletely 3-lobed. 
J.L. 
