248 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, _ Butea, 
ingly vivid that my best painter has not been able, with his 5 j 
utmost skill, to imitate their brightness. j 
From fissures, &c. in the bark the same sort of ruby co- — 
loured astringent gum exudes as was noticed in the last spe- 
cies. The flowers also yield the same beautiful ais dye 
and pigment. 
3. B. parviflora, Roxb. 
Shrubby, twining. Panicles axillary, and terminal ; flow- 
ers small, and white. Banner emarginate, 
A native of the mountainous parts of the Rajamundree 
Circar, from thence Captain Alexander Denton sent the seeds 
to the Botanic garden in 1797, where, when about ten years 
~ old, they began to blossom in Decent and ihe seed ripen- 
ed in April and May. 
When in flower, it is immediately known by its copious 
panicles of small, white flowers. In other respects it is so” 
much like Butea superba, that I took it for that species un- 
til it blossomed, 
Stem in plants twelve years old, as thick as a man’s leg, 
ligneous, twining. Bark light brown, and somewhat spongy. 
Branches numerous, twining over trees, &c, to an extent of 
many fathoms, : 
Leaves alternate, ternate, about a foot longs: Leaflets re 
_ pair obliquely oblong, the terminal one nearly round-obo- 
| vate; all are entire, obfuie; or emarginate, both sides some- 
what villous, particularly underneath; of a pale dull green, 
about six inches long, and nearly as broad. Petioles round, 
slightly” channelled, when young, villous, from three to six 
inches long, Stipules of the petioles triangular, acute, Pa- 
nicles terminal, with the smaller or single branches thereof in 
‘the axills of the exterior leaves, branches alternate, bifarious, 
diverging. Flowers numerous, short- pedicelled, small, —_ 
in proximate fascicles of three, Bractes numerous, 0 , 
long, small, downy, a common ‘one under csitha Saati one. = 
on the base of each ecco: and two aes om se i 
