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laid open. Fig. 8, The pistil and glands. Fig. 4, Section 
of a young fruit. Fig. 5, Portion of a leaf throwing out 
new plants from the crenatures of the margin :—natural size. 
XXXI. 
BUTEA FRONDOSA. 
DiapErLPHiA Decanpria. Nat. Ord. LEGUMINOSÆ. 
Cal. campanulatus, 5-dentatus, dentibus 2 sup. approximatis 
subconnexis. Corolle vexillum lanceolatum patens, carina 
alis et vexillo æqualis incurva. Stamina diadelpha (9 et 1). 
Legumen stipitatum plano-compressum membranaceum 
indehiscens apice 1-spermum. Semen compressum magnum. 
Arbores Asiatice inermes. Folia 3-foliolata 1l-juga cum 
impari, foliolis stipellatis amplis ovato-rotundis. Racemi 
multiflori, floribus ternis breviter pedicellatis sub calyce 
bibracteolatis. Corolle intense coccinee, Calyces pube 
sepius nigricante velutini. | 
Butea frondosa; ramulis pubescentibus, foliolis subrotundis, 
obtusis emarginatisve subtus subvelutinis, corolla calyce 
quadruplo longiore, dentibus calycinis subacutis. (SUPPL, 
Tas. XXXII.) 
B. frondosa. Roxb. Asiat. Hes. v. 3. p. 469. Pl. Cor. t. 21. 
Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 3. p. 911. De Cand. Prodr. v. 2. p. 415. 
Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 186. 
Erythrina monosperma. Lam. Dict. v. 1. p. 391. 
Plaso. Rheede, Hort. Mal. v. 6. p. 29. p. 16, 17. 
Porasat Marum,  Tamul. 
A middle-sized. tree, with rough cracked cinereous bark: 
inner bark thick, soft, white, exuding when first wounded a 
transparent gummy juice, which changes to red, and then con- . 
cretes into clear shining ruby-like grains. Branches rounded, 
rough, their flower-bearing extremities pendulous from the 
weight of flowers. The young shoots, petioles, and under 
surface of the leaves are thickly covered with short whitish 
powdery-looking down. Leaves petioled, ternate, the termi- 
nal leaflet very broad, slightly emarginate at the apex, cuneate 
