Butea.'] LEGUMINOSAE. 357 



3. GALACTIA VILLOSA, W. & A. 207. G. temiijiora var. wllosa, 

 Bak. in F. B. I. ii. 192. 



W. Grhats, in the Nilgiris and Pulneys, up to 6,000 ft. 

 A slender climber but stouter and with larger leaflets than 

 the others. 



40. Butea, Koxb. 



Trees or large climbing shrubs. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate, 

 leaflets large; stipules small, caducous; stipels subulate. Flowers 

 large, showy, densely fascicled in axillary or terminal racemes or 

 panicles ; bracts and bracteoles narrow, caducous. Calyx broadly 

 campanulate, the teeth deltoid, short, the 2 upper connate in an 

 entire or emarginate lip. Corolla much exserted ; standard ovate 

 or lanceolate, acute, recurved, equal to or shorter than the keel ; 

 wings falcate, adnate to the much incurved acute keel. Stamens 

 diadelphous ; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile or shortly stalked, 

 2-ovuled ; style long, incurved, beardless ; stigma very small, 

 terminal. Pod an oblong follicle, the base flat, wing-like and 

 indehiscent, the tip splitting round the single apical seed. Seed 

 obovate, compressed ; hilum small ; strophiole 0. 



An erect tree ; lowest calyx-tooth much shorter than the side ones 



base of pod rounded, almost semi- cordate, breadth of pod 1*5 in. 



1. frondosa. 



A large climbing shrub ; lowest calyx-tooth equal to the side ones ; 



base of pod narrowed ; breadth of pod I in .2. superba. 



1. BUTEA FRONDOSA, Koen. ; Roxb. Cor. PI. t. 21 ; F. B. I. ii. 

 194 ; W. & A. 261 ; Bedd. Fl. t. 176. 



In all dry Districts both in open country and deciduous 

 forests, frequently gregarious, less common in the Circars 

 than in the Deccan. Common on black cotton soil, also on 

 salt lands, 



A deciduous tree, very conspicuous when in flower before 

 the leaves appear, the large flowers being orange-scarlet 

 set in dark velvety calyces, the large leaflets broadly 

 obovate, coriaceous and reticulate. The wood is grey, soft, 

 and said to be durable under water. It yields a red 

 "Kino" gum and the lac insect is grown upon it. Yern. 

 Hind. Dkak, Palas; Ur. Porasu; Tel. Modugu ; Tarn. 

 Porasu ; Mai. Palasin samatha. 



