106 DiDYNAMiA ANGiospERMiA. Btgnonia. 



&c. emittino- roots from tlie joints; the bark cracks, and peels 

 off; otherwise it is smooth. 



Young shoots spotted with dark purple. Leaves oppo- 

 site, pinnate, from six to ten inches long. Leajfets opposite, 

 from three to four pairs, with an odd one, oval, deeply ser- 

 rate, pointed, tolerably smooth. Petioles deeply channel- 

 led, as if winged. Stipules uone. /^/ower« terminal, forming 

 pendulous, cross-armed panicles, they are large, on the outside 

 of a tawny orange colour, on the inside of a tolerably bright, 

 reddish-orange, with brighter streaks. Calyx and corol as in 

 the genus. JSTectarji, a glandular, crenulate ring surrounding 

 the base of the germ. Stamens a fifth sterile filament between 

 the short pair. Stigma two-parted; anterior lip recurved. 

 When in flower it is very ornamental. 



7. B. chelonoides. Willd. iii. 304. 



Arboreous. Leaves pinnate; leaflets about four-paired, 

 with an odd one, from ovate to oblong, entire, cuspidate. 

 Panicles terminal. Corol bilabiate. Siliqnes pendulous, 

 long, slender, sub-cylindric, with sharp edges, and various- 

 ly curved. 



Padri. Rheed. Mai. vi. t. 20. 



Tarn. Pou-padyra marum. 



Teling. Tagada. 



A native of the mountainous parts of the coast of Coroman- 

 del, where it grows to be a large tree. Flowers during the 

 hot and rainy seasons, and the seed ripens in December and 

 January. 



Trunk very straight, and of a great height and thickness. 

 Bark thick, scabrous, brown. Branches very numerous, 

 the inferior horizontal, above gradually becoming more and 

 more erect to the top. Leaves opposite, pinnate, with an odd 

 one, about twelve inches long. Leaflets opposite, short- 

 petioled, generally four pair, the inferior smallest, obliquely 

 oval, pointed, sometimes slightly notched about the margins, 

 when young downy, afterwards smooth, about four inches 



