108 DIDYNA3I1A ANGIOSPERMIA. BigUOIlia. 



tu'o-cleft. Silnjue erect, straight, linear, poinled, pretty 

 smootl), twelve incljes long, two broad, and half an inch 

 thick, four celled, two-valved, the dissepiment is eidarged 

 in the middle on each side, with a sharp ridge which touches 

 the sides of the valve, dividing each of the usual cells into two; 

 into these ridges the seeds are affixed, hence I have taken my 

 specific name. 



The wood of this tree is employed for many purposes by 

 the natives. 



9. B. stipulata. R, 



Arboreous, tender parts villous. Leaves pinnate ; leaflets 

 from four to six pairs, from oval to oblong-elliptic; conmion 

 petiole channelled. Stipules a tuft of sessile, orbicular ones 

 in each ax ill. 



A large tree, a native of Pegue, from thence introduced by 

 the Rev. Mr. F. Carey, into the Botanic garden at Calcutta, 

 where in two years it rose to the height often feet, with a sim- 

 ple trunk, which is considerably four-cornered toward the 

 top. 



Leaves opposite, about two feet long ; leaflets from nine 

 to fourteen, the largest of them a foot long, by six inches 

 broad. Common petiole much swelled at the insertion of the 

 leaflets, «ith a channel running- down the upper edge. It has 

 not yet blossomed in Bengal, but the siliques sent from Pegue 

 were cylindric. 



10. B. xy hear pa, R. 



Arboreous. Leaves bi- and tri-pinnate ; leaflets from ob- 

 liquely oblong to semi-cordate. Panicles terminal ; segments 

 of the border of the corol round, and curled. Siliques linear, 

 crooked, ligneous, and tubercled. 



A tall, elegant tree, a native of Soonda, where it was first 

 observed by Dr. Andrew Berry, and by him introduced into 

 the Botanic garden at Calcutta, where in six years the young' 

 trees were about twenty, or twenty-five feet highj they 



