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I'lmk. (Pulfis or Pras in Imlia.) 



Tree. Pedicels A-1 inch lonp;. 



Dr. Mason remarks : "Tliere is a species of Eutea very abundant on the alluvial 

 lands, which is a most magnificent tree. The Pwo Karens plant it in their sacred 

 groves, where the dei"p rich oran<;c blossoms, seen under a tropic sun in the dry 

 season, enveloping their almost leafless trunks and branches, give the copse the 

 appearance of a burning jungle. The Burmau books describe the Himalaya forest 

 as shining with the flowers of the Tiutea, like a flame of fire." 



Tlic tree yields a clear red gum with the astringent projierties of Gum Kino. 

 The leaves arc used in ln<lia as phites, and the flowers yield a fugitive yellow 

 or orange dye. Lac is also principally ])roduced on this tree, and its brilliant 

 saturnine or orange-red flowers seem to set the jtmglo ablaze and herald the com- 

 mencement of the hot season. I measured one dwarfed tree near the Irrawaddy of 

 18 feet in girth, but have never seen another approaching this size (W. T.). 



B. siTERBA, Roxb. W.C. All over Burma. 



Pouk-nwch. 



TV'oody climber. Pedicels 1-1^ inch long. 



X X Pods scssi//: 



Sub-genus SrATnoLOBt'S, Hassk. (Woody climbers.) 



Corolla small, white or purple, glabrous keel and standard more or less lilunt. 



B. PAEViFLOEA, Roxb. W. C. All over Burma. 



Spathololus Roxburghii, Bth. 



Leaves large, beneath appressed silvery pubescent. Pods stalked. Flowers white. 



B. ACUMINATA, Wall. W.C. Tropical forests all over Burma. 



Leaves small, glabrous to the naked eye. Pods sessile. Flowers white. 



Erythrixa, Liiuiaus. 

 I'ctah very unequal, the standard exceeding the keel. 



* Wiiiyt of corolla much longer than, the spatJiaceom cah/x. 

 X Pod hearing the few seeds at or towards the narrowed end only, the lower sterile 

 part greatly dilated, as in liutea. 



Sub-genus HYPArnouus, Hassk. 



Pods dehiscing at both sutures, the pilose sterile part contracted into a stalk 

 1-2 inches long. Seeds 1-3, free. Flowers almost sessile. 



E. LiTnospERMA, Miq. Pegu Range and Martaban. 



E. Sumatrana, llii|. 



Standard glabrous. Keel-petals wholly connate, obeordatc and shortly acuminate 

 in the sinus. 



E. noLosERicEA, Kz. Tluirawaddy district (Adamson). 



Standard minutely velvety. Keel consisting of 2 obliquely oblong rather acute 

 petals united at the middle only. 



A curious species, the flowers of which much resemble those of E. oralifolia, 

 •while the leaves (if they really belong to the flowers) are those of E. lithosperma. 



X X Pod many-seeded, seed-bearing from the base. 



Sub-genus Dcciiassaingia, "Walp. 



Pods flat, toniloso, opening only along the sinuate outer suture, the dorsal suture 

 prominent and straight. Seeds free, but usually separated by spurious spongy septa. 



E. ovAr.iFoi.iA, Roxb. Lower Pegu, and often cultivated. 



Glabrous, glaucous. Standard broad, notclied. Pods minutely greyish-velvety. 



