Butea, DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, 243 
two remarkably large, callous, margined scales on the inside, 
near the base. Stamens one and nine. Style ending in a ta- 
pering, incurved, smooth, pointed stigma. Legume compress- 
ed, elliptic, rather acute, smooth, about two inches long, and 
one broad, Seed one, rarely two, reniform, 
5. G, uliginosa, Roxb, 
_ Twining. Leaflets three or five, ovate-oblong, smooth, 
pointed, Racemes axillary, compound. Legume sub-orbi- 
cular, compressed, one-seeded. 
Dalbergia heterophylla, Willd. iii. 901. 
Robinia uliginosa of the same volume, page 1133. 
Beng. Pan-luta, 2 
A native of the lower parts of Bengal, inate it is found. on 
the wet banks of rivers, nullas, &c. "Foscaae time the hot 
season. 
Siems woody, twining. Bark scabrous, dark brown ; 
young parts smooth, Leaves alternate, unequally pinnate. 
Leaflets two-pairs, besides the terminal one, opposite, short- 
petiolate, ovate, pointed, entire, smooth, and shining on both 
sides; the exterior one largest. Racemes compound, axillary, 
or from the old axills over the naked branchlets, erect, about 
as long as the leaves. .Bractes minute. /lowers numerous, 
pretty large, of a beautiful rose-colour, Calyx campanulate, 
obscurely four or five-toothed. Filaments one and nine. Le- 
-gume orbicular, with a small curved apex, compressed, 
smooth, rather more than an inch each way. Seed solitary, 
large, filling the whole legume. 
| BUTEA. Kon. 
Calyx campanulate, bilabiate. Stamina simple, and nine- 
cleft. Legume pedicelled, membranaceous, with one ae 
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