248 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Butea. 



ingly vivid that my best painter has not been able, with his 

 utmost skill, to imitate their brightness. 



From fissures, &c. iii the bark the same sort of ruby co- 

 loured astringent gum exudes as was noticed in the last spe- 

 cies. The flowers also yield the same beautiful yellow dye 

 and pigment. 



3. B. parvijlora. Roxb. 



Shrubby, twining. Panicles axillary, and terminal ; flow- 

 ers small, and white. Banner emaroinate. 



A native of the mountainous parts of the Rajamundree 

 Circar,from thence Captain Alexander Denton sent the seeds 

 to the Botanic garden in 1797, where, when about ten years 

 old, they began to blossom in December, and the seed ripen- 

 ed in April and May. 



When in flower, it is immediately known by its copious 

 panicles of small, white flowers. In other respects it is so 

 much like Bntea superba, that I took it for that species un- 

 til it blossomed. 



Stem in plants twelve years old, as thick as a man's leg*, 

 ligneous, twining. Bark light brown, and somewhat spongy. 

 Branches numerous, twining over trees, &c. to an extent of 

 many fathoms. 



Leaves alternate, ternate, about a foot long. Leaflets the 

 pair obliquely oblong, the terminal one nearly round-obo- 

 vate; all are entire, obtuse, or emarginate, both sides some- 

 what villous, particularly underneath; of a pale dull green, 

 about six inches long-, and nearly as broad. Petioles round, 

 slightly channelled, when young, villous, from three to six 

 inches long. Stipules of the pelioles triangular, acute. Pa- 

 nicles terminal, with the smaller or single branches thereof in 

 the axills of the exterior leaves, branches alternate, bifarious, 

 diverging. Flowers numerous, short-pedicelled, small, white, 

 in proximate fascicles of three. Bractes numerous, ovate-ob- 

 long, small, downy, a common one under each fascicle, one 

 on the base of each pedicel, and two pressing each calyx la- 



