ON ERYTHKOPHLEUM JUDICIALE. 
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of the facts contained in the above quotations, has led to the 
opinion that the Sassy bark tree is not only an Erythroph- 
leum, as supposed in my former essay, but closely resembles 
the Red water tree of Sierra Leone, as supposed by R. Brown 
in reference to the ordeal plant of Congo. The reasons for this 
belief, in the absence of the specific characters of the SierraLeone 
tree, are, the proximity of Cape Palmas to the latter colony, the 
similar application of its bark as an ordeal, and its strong coloring 
power when infused in water, which property has given name to the 
Sierra Leone plant. On the other hand, the alternate position of 
the folioles of the sassy tree, whilst those of the red water tree are 
opposite, render their identity at least doubtful. 
As no specific name has been given to the red water tree — and 
as the sassy bark tree may be identical, I have called it Ery- 
throphleum judiciale, in reference to its use by the natives. 
Erythrophleum, Afz. — Natural order, Fabace^: ; sub order, 
Mimose^e, and tribe, Parkier, of Lindley. 
Generic characters. — Flowers, hermaphrodite, regular. Calyx, 
five-limbed, subimbricated. Corolla, five petals. Stamens, peri- 
gynous. Legume, compressed, bivalved, and many seeded. 
(Endlicher, Gen, Plant, p. 1323). They are tall tropical African 
trees, with bi-pinnate leaves, opposite folioles, flowering in ter- 
minal and lateral racemes. 
Erythrophleum judiciale, is a large tree with numerous spread- 
ing branches, the latter covered with a smooth bark, greyish color- 
ed externally, whilst on the trunk and larger branches the bark is 
rough, corrugated and fissured, and has a ferruginous red color, 
with light colored excrescences. The leaves are bi-pinnated : the 
pinnse are articulated oppositely on the general petiole, and vary 
from three to six or seven pairs, according as they are taken from 
near the flowering terminus of a branch, or below. The terminal 
pinna? are longer, and the folioles larger, than those near the base 
of the leaf. The leaflets are sub-petiolate, obliquely ovate and 
acuminate, from one to three inches long, alternate or in pairs 
nearly opposite, smooth, entire, coriaceous, and varying from three 
to five or six on a side. The bark of the twigs and younger 
branches is covered with light colored dots, which extend to the 
bases of the peduncles and petioles. Inflorescence. — The sassy 
tree flowers in compound spike-like racemes ; that is to say, all the 
