SPAIM UJ2v
ERYTHRINA HERBACEA.
HERBACEOUS CORAL TREE.
Diadelphia Decandria, Linn. Leguminosce, Juss.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Qalix sub-bilabiate, various. Vexillw/n of the Corolla very long and lanceolate. Legume
torulose, many-seeded.—Nutt.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
E . small, herbaceous; leaves trifoliate ; folioles sub-hastate; spike very long;
flowers linear-lanceolate, deep carmine-red; calix truncated, entire. B.
SYNONYMS.
E rythrina foliis ternatis, caulibus simplicissimis fruticoso annuis. Hort. Cliff. 354.
CORALLODENDRON. Tournefort.
C orallodendron foliis ternatis, caule simplicissimo inermi. Trew. ehret. t. 58.
C orallodendron humile, spica florum longissima radice crassissima. Catesb. Car.
49. t. 49.
C oral carolinensis, hastato folio. Dillenius, elth. 107. t. 90. f. 106.
ERYtflE®TA .HEIBBACEA.
