ERYTHRINA, (Encycl.) Of the wood of this tree the inhabitants of Malabar make sheaths for swords and knives. They use the same, together with the bark, in washing a sort of garment which they call sarajar; and make of the flowers, the confection caryl. The leaves pulverised and boiled with the mature nux Indica, or cocoa-nut, consume venereal buboes, and ease pains in the bones; bruised and applied to the temples, they cure the cephalaea and ulcers; mixed with the sugar called jagra, they mitigate pains in the belly, especially in women; and the same effect follows from the use of the bark levigated with vinegar, or swallowing the kernel stripped of its red pellicle. The juice of the leaves taken with oil sergelim, mitigates venereal pains; drunk with an infusion of rice, it stops fluxes; made into a cataplasm with the leaves of beteleira, it destroys worms in old ulcers; and worked with oil, it cures the pfora and itching.