324 DECANDR[A MONOGYNiA. BauUnia. 



Trunk straight. Branches numerous, forming a close, 

 handsome, large shrub. Bark ash-coloured ; young sJioots 

 villous ; the general height about ten feet, I mean of large 

 plants. Leaves alternate, bifarious, petioled, roundish, 

 deeply tvvo-lobed, with a minute bristle between ; lobes 

 roundish, villous underneath. Stipules filiform, villous. 

 Peduncles solitary, nearly opposite to the leaves, two- 

 cleft, two flowered. Flowers large, of a pale sulphur 

 colour, drooping. Bractes three on the outside of the base 

 of each pedicel. Petals oval, the upper one smaller, and 

 in some plants marked on the inside, with an oblong deep 

 puiple spot. Filaments ten, ascending, the length of the 

 pistillum. Anthers ten, all fertile. Legume lanceolate, vil- 

 lous, from five to six-seeded. 



9. B. acuminata. Willd. 2. 511. 



Shrubby. Leaves with lobes somewhat pointed. Ra- 

 cemes laterilblius, and terminal. Stamens ten, alternate 

 by shorter. Legumes lanceolate. 



Velutta-mandaru. Rheed. Mai. \. p. 61. t. 34. 



Beng. Canchwn. 



Hind. CMchwnar. 



It is a small, ramous tree, or large shrub ; whole height 

 from eight to ten feet. It is in flower most part of the 

 year. 



Trunk scarcely any, but many large branches spread in 

 every direction ; bark greyish brown. Leaves alternate, 

 bifarious, petioled ; two-Iobed, nine-nerved, the middle 

 nerve ends in a short bristle between the lobes ; smooth 

 above, downy underneath ; lobes oblong, somewhat point- 

 ed ; from two to four inches long. Petioles channelled, 

 swelled, and jointed at the base, downy, one inch long. 

 Stipules half-lanced, very acute. Flowers racemed, large, 

 pure white, inodorous. Racemes solitary, laterifolious, or 

 terminal, short, few-flowered. Bractes a small pointed one 

 below each pedicel, with two or more scattered among the 



