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very fine, soft, silky wool, which in this species adheres 
stigh y to the seed. 
2. B. heptaphylia. Willd. iii. 732. 
Trunk and branches armed. Leaves digitate; leaflets cus- 
pidate. Stamina numerous, in two series of fascicles. Stigma 
five-cleft. 
Moul elavou. Rheed, Mal. iii, p. 61. 1. 52. 
Salmuli, the Sanscrit name; see Asiat. Res. iv. 296. 
Beng. Simul. 
Teling. Boorgha. 
This is one of the largest of our Indian trees and is found 
almost every where; over the horthern Circars, near the 
mountains, they grow toa greater size than I have seen them 
any where else, often about one hundred feet high, the trunk 
thick and ramous in proportion. Flowering time, the end of 
winter, when the tree is totally destitute of leaves. The great 
numbers of very large, bright red flowers with which it is 
then covered, makes it remarkably conspicuous at a very 
great distance. 
Trunk straight, pao with innumerable, crowded, short, 
' sharp, conic aculei, the bark is also very scabrous, and deeply 
cracked, outwardly ash-coloured, inwardly red, Branches 
sub-verticelled, variously bent, but generally in a horizontal 
direction, and armed like the trunk, Leaves alternate, long- 
petioled, digitate. Leaflets five, six, or seven, petiolated, 
broad-lanceolate, long, fine-pointed, entire, smooth on both 
sides, from six to twelve inches long. Pedioles longer than 
the leaflets, round, smooth. Petiolets short, channelled on 
the upper side. Stipules small, caducous. Flowers numer- 
ous, collected in fascicles at and near the extremities of the 
otherwise naked branchlets, very large, of a bright, lively 
red colour; they contain a large portion of sweet liquid, 
which birds are fond of. Bracies small, caducous. Calyx 
cup-shaped, circumcised, of a thick Jeathery texture ; cover- 
ed on the inside with white, silky down; on the outside pretty. 
