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also a very five durable yellow lake, and all these in a very 
large proportion. 
The Lace insects are frequently found on the small branches 
and the petioles of the leaves of this treé. Whether the na- 
tural juice of its bark contributes to improve the colour of 
their red nidus, or colouring matter, I cannot say. It would 
require a set of experiments accurately made on specimens 
of Jac gathered from the various trees it is found on, at the 
same time, and as nearly as possible from the same place, to 
determine this point. 
I do not find that the natives make any use af the gum, or 
flowers, although they promise to be valuable. The former 
as a medicine ; and the latter as a pigment, and dying drug. 
2. B. superba, Willd. iii, p. 917. R. Corom, pl. 1, No, 22. 
Shrubby, twining. 
Teling. Tiga-muduga. 
This is a very large, twining shrub, a native of the Circar 
mountains. Flowering time the beginning of the hot season, 
and the seed ripens in June and July, 
Root spindle-form, very large. Stem twining, as thick or 
thicker than a man’s leg, woody, very long, running over 
large trees. Bark ash-coloured, pretty smooth, Branches 
like the stem, but with a smoother bark. Leaves alternate, ter- 
minal, remote, very large. Leaflets downy, in other respects 
asin B. frondosa, but much larger ; the exterior one is often 
about twenty inches long, and broad in proportion, the lateral 
ones somewhat less. Racemes as in the former, but much 
larger. Flowers also the same, only much larger, and more 
numerous. Calyx divided as the other, but the divisions long- 
er and much more pointed. Corol the same. Legumes and 
seed as in the former, but rather larger. When this species _ 
is in full flower, I do not think the vegetable world offers a 
more gaudy show. The flowers are incomparably beautiful, 
very large, and very numerous. The colours are so exceed- 
