Bomhax. monadelphia dodecandria. 167 



very fine, soft, silky wool, which in this species adheres 

 slightly to the seed. 



2. B. hepiaphylla. Willd. iii. 732. 



Trunk .ind hrnnches armed. Leaves digitate; leaflets cus- 

 pidate. Stamina numerous, in two series of fascicles. Stigma 

 five cleft. 



Moul elavou. Rlieed. Mai. iii. p.VA. 1. 52. 



Salm?di, the Sanscrit name; see Asiat. Res. iv. 296. 



Bemf. S/m7/l. 



Teinuf. Boorgha. 



This is one of the largest of our Indian trees and is found 

 almost every where; over the northern Circars, near the 

 mountains, they grow to a greater size than I have seen them 

 any where else, often about one hundred ieei high, the trunk 

 thick and ramous in proportion. Flowering- time, the end of 

 winter, when the tree is totally destitute of leaves. The great 

 numbers of very large, bright red flowers with which it is 

 then covered, makes it remarkably conspicuous at a very 

 great distance. 



Trunk straight, covered with innumerable, crowded, short, 

 sharp, conic aculei, the bark is also very scabrous, and deeply 

 cracked, outwardly ash-coloured, inwardly red. Branches 

 sub-verticelled, variously bent, but generally in a horizontal 

 direction, and armed like the trunk. Leaves alternate, long-- 

 petioled, digitate. Leaflets five, six, or seven, petiolated, 

 broad-lanceolate, long, fine-pointed, entire, smooth on both 

 sides, from six to twelve inches lono-. Petioles lonoer than 

 the leaflets, round, smooth. Petioleis short, channelled on 

 the upper side. Stipules small, caducous. Flowers numer- 

 ous, collected in fascicles at and near the extremities of the 

 otherwise naked branchlets, very large, of a bright, lively 

 red colour ; they contain a large portion of sweet liquid, 

 which birds are fond of. Bractes small, caducous. Calyx 

 cup-shaped, circumcised, of a thick leathery texture; cover- 

 ed on the inside with white, silky down; on the outside pretty 



