358 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Butea. 



2. BUTEA SUPERBA, Roxb. Cor. PL t. 22; F. B. I. ii. 195; 

 W. & A. 261. 



N. Circars, in the forests of Gran jam and Yizagapatam. 

 An immense climbing shrub, the leaves and flowers and 

 pods very like those of B. frondosa, but the flowers rather 

 more yellow and slightly larger. Like it also, it gives a 

 " Kino " gum and the flowers a red dye. 



41. Spatholobus, Hassk. 



Large climbing shrubs. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate ; stipules 

 small, deciduous ; stipels small, subulate. Flowers small, in 

 large terminal panicles extending to the axils of the upper leaves ; 

 pedicels fascicled ; bracts and bracteoles small, deciduous. 

 Calyx campanulate ; teeth lanceolate or deltoid, the two upper 

 connate. Corolla exserted, the petals subequal, clawed ; standard 

 ovate or orbicular ; wings obliquely oblong, free ; keel straight, 

 obtuse, auricled above the claw. Stamens diadelphous ; anthers 

 uniform. Ovary sessile or stalked, 2-ovuled ; style subulate, 

 incurved, beardless ; stigma capitate. Pod an oblong, often 

 somewhat falcate, follicle, the base flat, wing-like, reticulate and 

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

 compressed ; hilum small ; strophiole 0. 



Leaflets large, the terminal one reaching sometimes 12 in. long by 

 9 in. broad, usually shining silky pubescent beneath ; corolla cream- 

 coloured ; pod tomentose, stalked, 3-4 in. long by 1-1 i in. broad 



1. Roxburghii. 



Leaflets rather small, tip to 5 in. long by 2 - 5 in. broad, glabrous 

 beneath ; corolla purple ; pod glabrous, sessile, 4 in. long by '75 in. 

 broad 2. purpureus. 



1. SPATHOLOBUS ROXBURGHII, Benth. ; F. B. I. ii. 193. JButea 

 parviflora, Roxb. ; W. & A. 261 ; Wt. Ic. t. 210. 

 N. Circars and Deccan, in hill forests ; W. Ghats, from 

 S. Canara to Travancore, up to 3,000 ft. 

 A large climbing shrub with dark brown rough bark and 

 wood in concentric layers of very porous tissue and bast 

 tissue exuding a red gum. It is very damaging to forest 

 trees. The bark gives a coarse fibre. Yern. Hind. Maula ; 

 Ur. Poraso ; Tarn. Pilacchi valli ; Mai. Athambu. 



