16. Dolichos.] 43. PAPILIONACJS^J. [17. Butba. 



Erect with twining branches, pubescent or hairy all over. 

 Fls. 3-4 together, axillary on a very short peduncle, 

 yellow. 



One of the commonest field orops in Singhbum and general throngl - 

 out Chota Nagpur. Fls. Oct.-Nov, FT.Nov.-Dec. 



Lflts. 2'' by 1" or smaller, ot ate-oblong acnte. Stipules £* lanceolate. 



Standard £ by ^V'- Keel oblong falcate. Pod l£-2'', hairy, falcate, 

 4-6 seeded. 



Eaten by the natives but f aid to be inferior, chiefly grown as a cattle 

 and horse food. 



17. Butea, Roxb. 



Trees or climbing shrubs with large 3-foliolate stipellate 

 leaves and large showy red flowers fascicled in axillary or 

 terminal racemes or panicles. Calyx broadly campannlate 

 with short teeth. Petals nearly equal. Standard recurved. 

 Keel much curved. St. diadelphous. Ovary 2-ovuled. 

 Pod coriaceous splitting round the single apical seed. 



1. B. frondosa, Roxb. Morud, K. ; Mump', S. ; Paras, 

 Beng. t Kharw. ; Dhak, H. 



A small or mod.-sized tree with crooked trunk and black 

 nodose branchlets, with handsome flowers which are produced 

 in great profusion on the thickened nodes of the branches ; 

 and are l|-2" long. 



One of the commonest trees in Chota Nagpur and often gregarious 

 in cultivated and waste lands, especially in HazaribaglT and Palamau. 

 Fls. Feby.- April. Ft. May- June. Dec Feby.-May. 



Young shoots tomentose. Lflts. 4-8" strorgly veined and silky 

 beneath" with a peculiar greyish hue when seen from a distance. Pedicels 

 and calyx brown-velvety. Pods 4-7'' by 1^-2''. 



On blazing the tree a red juice issues which hardens into a red 

 astringent gum used in diarrhoea. The seeds are anthelmintic The 

 leaves are used as fodder and for manure. The bark of the roots gives 

 a fibre for ropes, and the flowers a dye. Lac is sometimes cultivated on it. 



2. B. snperba, Eoxb. Morud, K. ; Nari-m^lrup , , S. ; 

 Dorang, Kharw. 



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