Q44 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, | Butea. 
1. B. frondosa,. Corom. pl. i. No. 21. Willd. iii. p. 917. 
_ Arboreous, 
~ Sans. Pulasa. 
Beng. Pulas. 
Erythrina monosperma. Lamarck, Encycl. ii, p. 388. 
Teling. Maduga. 
- Plasa. Rheed. Mal. vi. t. 16 and 17, 
A middle-sized, or rather a large tree, not very common on 
the low land of the coast, but much more so among the moun- 
tains, and still more in Bengal. Leaves deciduous, during 
the cold season; they come out again, with the flowers, about 
the months of March and April ; seed ripe in June and July. 
Trunk generally crooked, covered with ash-coloured, 
spongy, thick, scabrous bark; the middle stratum of which 
contains a red juice, hereafter to be mentioned. Branches 
very irregularly bent in various directions. Young shoots 
downy. Leaves alternate, spreading, ternate, from eight to 
sixteen inches Jong. Leaflets emarginate, or rounded at the 
_ apex, leathery, above shining, and pretty smooth; below 
slightly hoary, entire, the pair are obliquely oval, from four 
to six inches long, and from three to four and a half broad, the 
exterior one obovate, and considerably larger than the lateral 
ones. Common petioles round, when young downy, as long 
as the leaflets. Stipules of the petioles small, recurved, dow- 
__ ny, those of the leaflets subulate. Racemes terminal, axilla- 
| ry, and from tuberosities over the naked woody branchlets, | 
rigid, covered with a soft, greenish-purple down, Flowers 
papilionaceous, pendulous, numerous, pedicelled, fascicled, 
very large, their ground colour a beautiful deep red, shaded 
with orange and silver-coloured down, which gives them a 
most elegant appearance.* Pedicels round, about an inch 
long, articulated near the apex, and covered with the same 
greenish, velvet-like down. Bractes lanceolate, caducous, one 
below the insertion of each pedicel, and two smaller, pressing — 
on the calyx. Calyx campanulate, leathery, two-lipped ; the 
upper lip large, scarcely emarginate; the under one three- 
