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ERYTHRINA carnea. 
Flesh-coloured Coral-tree. 
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DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. LEGUMINOSE. Jussieu gen. 345. Div. V. 
ERYTHRINA. Supra vol. 4. fol. 313. 
E. carnea, foliis ternatis glabris, caule arboreo subaculeato, calycibus cam- 
panulatis truncatis. Hort. Kew. 3. 8. 
Erythrina carnea. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4.251. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 912. 
Erythrina americana. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 2. 
Corallodendron triphyllum americanum non spinosum foliis magis acumi- 
natis, flore pallidé rubente. Trew ehret. 2. t. 8. A 
Caulis 7-pedalis, aculeatus. Calyx truncatus uti in Eryrurina herbacea. 
Vexillum carneum, feré rectum, latere deflecum, compressum, calyce sextuplo 
longius. Ale pallide, on onee altero latere recte, calyce vix longiores. 
Carina pallida, dipetala; petalis basi rotundatis, dein subulatis, longitudine 
alarum. Dryander in sched. banksianis. 
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We are obliged to Mr. Herbert, for the drawing of this 
scarce shrub, which flowered in the hothouse at Spofforth, 
in the early part of last spring. The species was introduced 
by Dr. Houston, from Vera Cruz, before 1733. 
Having had no opportunity of taking a description of the 
plant ourselves; we shall subjoin a few notes concerning 
the species from Mr. Dryander’s manuscripts in Sir Joseph 
Banks’s library. 
Stem about 7 feet high, thorny. Calyx truncate, as in 
Eryrurina herbacea. Vexillum  flesh-coloured, nearly 
straight, bent down at the sides, compressed, six times 
longer than the calyx. dle pale, oblong, with one straight 
side, scarcely longer than the calyx. Carina pale, of two 
‘ petals rounded at the base, then tapered subulately, of the 
same length as the ale. 
