Biynonki. didvnamia angiospermia. 105 



Patali tlie Sanscrit name. See Jlsiatic Res. 291. 



Bnuf. Parul. 



Hind. Paial. 



B. padri. Knn. Mss. and B. H. 



A middle sized tree, a native of Bengal, and of the south- 

 ern parts ot the Coromandel coast. Flowering- time the hot 

 season. 



Trunk tolerably erect, though not straight. Bark ash-co- 

 loured, and somcAvhat scabrous. Leaves opposite, pinnate, 

 with an odd one from twelve to twenty-four inches long. 

 Leaflets opposite, from two to four pairs, oval, with long", 

 bluntish, narrow points, slightly serrate, having both sides 

 downy while young, and Avlien full grown not downy and 

 feeling harsh ; the exterior pair and odd one al)out six inches 

 long, by three or four broad ; the inferior pair, or pairs, small- 

 er. Petioles swelled at the base, roundish, m hen old scab- 

 rous. Panicles terminal, composed of a (ew spreading branch- 

 lets; the first and second pairs thereof opposite, the superior 

 dichotonious, with a solitary, pedicel led flower in the forks ; 

 all are downy, and somewhat viscid. Floivers large, of a dark, 

 dull, crimson colour, exquisitely fragrant. Calyx campanu- 

 late. Border four-cleft; upper divisions with two minute 

 points, outside a little villous. Corol ; throat ample, wool- 

 ly, convex above, flat and plaited beneath. Border, the up- 

 per divisious shorter, erect ; the three inferior ones longer and 

 projecting, with the margins of all much curled. Filaments 

 four, fertile, and between them a small sterile one. Anthers 

 twin. Germ oblong, clavated on a glandular receptacle. 

 Stigma two-lobed. 



6. B. (frandifora. Willd. iii. 302. 



Shrubby, scandent. Leaves pinnate ; leaflets ovate, ser- 

 rate. Panicles terminal, pendulous, divisions of the calyx 

 lanceolate, length of the corol. 



Chin. Tuno-vono-fa. 



A large scandent shrub, a native of China, runs over bushes, 



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