Erythrophloeum
(from erythros, red, and phloios, bark; referring to the red juice which flows from the tree when cut). Red-water Tree. ORD. Leguminosae. A small genus, containing three or four species of unarmed stove evergreen trees. Flowers small, almost sessile, in long, cylindrical spikes, forming a terminal panicle; petals five, small, slightly imbricate; stamens ten, inserted with the petals, free. Leaves bipinnate. For culture, see Acacia.
E. guineense (Guinea). fl. pale yellow. l. bipinnate; leaflets opposite, oval, oblique, from roundish to lanceolate, repand, acuminated and entire. h. 40ft. to 100ft. Sierra Leone, 1823. The bark of this tree is very poisonous.
E. Laboucherii (Labouchere's). fl., spikes rather dense, nearly sessile, 1in. to 3in. long; petals longer than the calyx, with woolly edges; stamens more than twice as long as the petals, inserted in two rows. l., pinnae opposite, in two or three pairs; leaflets four to nine, alternate, obliquely obovate or orbicular, very obtuse or retuse. Branches glabrous. North Australia. A lofty, hard-wooded tree.