322 DECANDRIA MONOGYNlA. Baulwiia, 



6- B. retusa. R- 



Arboreous. Leaves rouadish, reniforin, from two-lobed 

 to scarcely emarginate. Panicles terminal. Petals round- 

 ish. Stamens three, all fertile. Legume oblong, from five 

 to six-seeded. 



I found this species in the Company's Botanic gar- 

 den at Calcutta, but could never learn from whence it 

 was brought. The trees are about twenty years old. 

 Flowering time September ; the seed ripens in March. 



Trunk short and thick, but rarely straight. Branches 

 spreading, w ith long, slender, waving, pendulous branch- 

 lets. Bark pretty smooth, rust coloured. Leaves bifa- 

 rious, alternate petioled, rouud-reniforra ; from two lob- 

 ed, to slightly emarginate, with a bristle in the notch, 

 from seven to eleven-nerved, smooth on both sides, di- 

 mensions from three to six inches each way. Panicles 

 terminal, and axillary, composed of many corymbiform 

 racemes ; the ramifications a little villous. Flowers nu- 

 merous, small, pale yellow, beautifully marked with nu- 

 merous, small, purple spots. Filaments three, from the 

 under side, nearly as long as the pistil, ascending, they are 

 all fertile. On the upper side of the large woolly recep- 

 tacle into which these and the pistil are inserted, are 

 two large, yellow, bristle-pointed, smooth glands, with 

 smaller brownish ones, intermixed ; some, or ail of these 

 have also a little bristle issuing from them. Pistilluni 

 when the flowers firstexpand, and for sometime afterwards 

 recurved, as if to place the stigma below the anthers ; 

 afterwards it becomes incurved like the stamens, and in 

 that situation the stigma is higher than the anther. Le- 

 gume linear-oblong, with the apex rounded, flat, smooth, 

 about six inches long, and two broad. Seed from four to 

 eight in the legume, obovate, much compressed, smooth 

 and of a dark brown colour. 



From wounds made in the bark a brownish mild gum, 

 like that of the cherry tree, is produced. 



