320 DECANDRiA MONOGYNiA. Bauliinia. 



in the colour of the flowers ; had I met with this first, I 

 should certainly have considered the other as a variety 

 only. 



3. B. purpurea. Willd. 2. 511. 



Arboreous. Leaves smooth ; lobes obtuse. Filaments 

 ten, of which three or four are large and fertile. Panicles 

 terminal. Legumes linear. 



Chovanna-mandaru. Rheed. Mai 1. t. 33. 



Hind. Sona. 



Beng. Devrt-kancliMn. 



This I have not only found in gardens, but also wild 

 on the mountains, where it grow s to be a large tree. 



Leaves alternate, petioled, nearly bifarious, smooth on 

 both sides, from nine to eleven-nerved ; the middle one 

 ending between the lobes in a bristle ; lobes oblong, ob- 

 tuse, the whole from five to six inches long, and from 

 four to five broad. Panicles terminal, ascending, com- 

 posed of racemes, similar to, though larger than those of 

 B. Candida. Bractes, one embracing the insertion of the 

 pedicel, and two pressing the calyx laterally. Flowers 

 numerous, of a deep rose colour, very large. Calyx gene- 

 rally splits into two ; divisions retlexed, the lower one is 

 generally emarginate, and the upper one three-toothed. 

 Petals lanceolate, waved. Stamens three or four, large with 

 fertile anthers and six or seven small sterile filaments. 



4. B. triandra. R. 



Arboreous. Leaves smooth, subrotund, with lobes ob- 

 tuse. Racemes terminal and axillary. Petals cunei- 

 form, obtuse, long-clawed, margins waved, and curled. 

 Fertile stamina three. Legume linear, many- seeded. 



A native of Bengal. In the Botanic garden at Calcut- 

 ta, it blossoms in October and November, the seed ripens 

 in March. 



TrMwA: straight, and of considerable size. Branches few, 



