308 BOTANICAL OBSERVATIONS 



Stem arborescent, rather knotty. Leaves feathered, 

 pairs from nine to fifteen, or more, often alter- 

 nate; leaflets oblong, end-nicked, some with an 

 acute point, dark green above, paler beneath, 

 with a gibbosity at the insertion of the petiols; 

 sleeping, or collapsing, towards night. Racemes 

 axillary ; pedicels with a double curvature or line 

 of beauty; flowers small, six or seven; varying 

 in colour; in some plants, wholly yellow; in 

 others, with a blackifh-purple awning yellow with- 

 in, and dark yellow wings tipped with brown ; in 

 some with an awning of the richest orange-scarlet 

 externally, and internally of a bright yellow; 

 wings yellow, of different shades ; and a keel pale 

 below, with an exquisite changeable light purple 

 above, striated in elegant curves. The whole 

 plant is inexpressibly beautiful, especially in the 

 colour of the buds and leaves, and the grace of 

 all the curves, foi there is no proper angle in any ; 

 part of it. The Brahmens hold it sacred: Van 

 Rheede says, that they call it Ca?mnga ; but I 

 never met with that word in Sanscrit: it has parts 

 like an Hedysarum, and the air of Cytisus, 



61. Pala'sa ; 



Syn. Cinsuca^ Partia, Vdtapofha. 



Vulg. Pa'hs Ptis Dha'c. 



Koen. Butea frondosa. 



Cal. Perianth belled, two-lipped upper lip broader, 

 obscurely end-nicked ; under lip three-cleft, dow* 

 ny; permanent. 



Cor. Boat-form. 



Awnhig 



