ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW 



BULLETIN 



OF 



MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 



No. 9.] 



[1908. 



XLVIL-A NEW SPECIES OF BUTEA, WITH NOTES 



ON THE GENUS- 



The genus Butea, proposed by Koenig to accommodate the 

 ' Palas ' or < Dhak '—a well-known and striking Indian tree— and 

 to commemorate the services to botany of the third Lord -Bute, 

 was published by Roxburgh (PI. Corom., vol. 1. p. 21) m M J0 ' *°. 

 «,* * Poioo ' ™w«fc ^ ftlrwidv been figured by Rheede in 1650 



Malab 



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monosperma by Lamarck in 1783 (Encyc Meth. vol. i. •*™V* 



Roxburgh added a second species, which differs m having larger 

 flowers with longer pedicels, and in being a climber ^uth stems 

 that rise from a hypogaeal tuber-like base The ^erect ^species Rox- 

 burgh named B. frondosa ; the climber he termed B. m^ ™ 

 diagnostic characters of Butea given by Bentham *»»(£*■ 

 D? " i ,• ~ K>vi\ „„a K.r t*» wt. in 1894 (Nat. PJUmsenjam. 



M „„ (Nat , . 



to Koenig's original genus. 



vol. iii. 3, p. 365) apply precisely to Avoemg» £%"™^"X 

 Bentham, however, and in this he was tollowed by Taubei ; ad 

 mitted the existence of a third species, B. minor, Ham., which is 

 not precisely covered by these diagnoses. 

 In 1813 Roxburgh widened the scope ^^nig's genus by 



admitting another species, B. parviflom (Hort Beny.v. * >h 

 which was fully described in his posthumous i flora C^'£ 

 vol. iii. p. 248) in 1832. This species *&*™ ^indovZence of 

 habit and foliage ; it differs in having a f^fS'by 

 more numerous, much smaller flowers, and has been reterrea y 



Bentham and Taubert to another genus. 



In 1825 De Candolle (Prodr vol. \^™^^l^ 

 as enlarged by Roxburgh in 1813, and doubtf fcty adde^ ^ 

 species, B. Braamiana, DO, be leve to ^ rf d ings 



species was taken up from t. 23 in a co " S p nte China nas- 



issued by Bohte in 1821 as • Icones P^T $%m has been 

 centium e bibliotheca Braamiana exceiptae. ^ m& page y 



met with in China, and it is now known t n pranged 



slightly in error, for the Bftine ^^if^l & 1818-ta this 

 in a different sequence, was advertised b 5 Oattley m 



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