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E R Y TH R IN A laurifolia.
Laurel-leaved Coral-tree.
Natural Order. L k g um in o sæ . J uss. gen. 345.
Subordo I. FAP1LI0NACEÆ. £/«6riyo homotropus pleurorhi-
zeus nempè radiculâ super loborum commissuram prona. Sépala
per æstivatioiiem imbricata aut subvalvata. FeZa/a in corollani
papilioiiaceam disposita, semper ideò irregularia, staminaque
imò calyci inserta seu perigyna. Folia Simplicia a ut simpliciter
composita, nunquam bi nec tripinnata. DC. prodr. 2. p. 94.
Tribus V. F h a s e o l e æ . CoroZ/apapilionacea. Stamina mo-
nadelpha aut sæpiùs d iadelpha (9 et 1). Legumen polyspermum
dehiscens continuum membranis cellulosis transversis inter semina
sitis sæpè subdivisum non veré articulatum. Radícula super
loborum commissuram inllexa. Cotyledones crassæ per ger-
minationem imniutatæ aut in folia crassa vix stomatibus donata
conversæ, extra terram et sæpiùs extrà spermodermium exsertæ.
Folia primordialia opposita! omnium folíola numero imparia
sæpius pinnatim, rariùs palmatim disposita. D C .p r o d r .2 .p .3 8 \.
E R Y T H R IN A . CaZyx tubulosus ore truncato subdentato
aut spatbaceus. Corollæ vexillum longissimum oblongum, ala
et carina dipelala vexillo multò breviores. Stamina diadelplia
recta, decimo nunc cæteris subcoalito, nunc libero alis multo
breviore aut rariùs deficiente. Legumen longum torulosnm bivalve
polyspermum. Semina ovata, hilo laterali.—Arbusculæ
aut frútices, rarius herbæ. Stipulæ p a rva a petiolo distineta.
FoWo. petiolata 1-juya cum impari ; foliolis loco stipellarum glan-
dulis basi slipatis. Caules et petioli interdùm aculeati. Racemi
elongati, pedicellis sapé ternatini approximatis. Flores rubro-
coccinei. Semina sæpiùs rubro et nigro mixta, nitida. DC. loc.
cit. p. 4 1 0 -4 1 1 .
E. laurifolia, caule sulfruticoso r a m o s o ; ramis gradlibus glabris
subacnleatis, foliis ternatis: foliolis petiolatis oblongis
acuminatis, petiolis subacnleatis glandulosis, calycibus uni-
dentatis, carina monopetala, staminibus monadelphis.
Frythrina laurifolia. Jacq. obs. 3. 1. Z. 51.
Frythrina Crista galli. Botan. regist. 313. excl. synonym.
Stem suffruticose, Avhen cultivated in the open ground
becoming herbaceous : branches upright* long, and slender,
round, smooth, furnished here and there with a few
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