VO BOTANY. 



MIMUSOPS. 



A species of mimusops, a rare ornamental tree, is much 

 valued by Burmese ladies for its small delicate sweet-scent- 

 ed blossoms, which they string in chaplets for the head. 

 Mimusops Elengi, 



BUTEA. 



There is a species ofbuteavery abundant in Province 

 Amherst which is a most magnificent tree. The Pwo 

 Karens plant it in their sacred groves, where the deep rich 

 orange blossoms seen under a tropic sun in the dry season 

 enveloping their almost leafless trunks and branches, give 

 the copse the appearance of a burning jungle. The Bur- 

 ooks describe the Himalaya forest, as shining with 

 the flowers of the butea " like a flame of fire." 

 Butea frondosa, 

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EEPING BUTEA. 



is an immense creeper with flowers resembling 

 the preceding species, and is not uncommon in the pro- 

 vinces of Tavoy and Mergui. 

 Butea superba. 



GUM KINO TREE, 



The gum kino tree is a majestic evergreen, whose yellow 

 papilionaceous flowers clustering amid the bright droop- 

 ing foliage, scent the air, like the large magnolias, for sev- 

 eral hundred yards around. It is propagated by simply 

 planting large branches in the ground at the commence- 

 ment of the rains. There are, however, two species, the 

 r ed, and the white, as distinguished by Burmese — the red 



