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Mahim woods; Elephanta; Hills throughout the Concans; Jungles in Kan- 
deish. (Lieut. Auld.) 
When in flower, this tree has a most singular appearance. 
944. B.Suserosa. Rox. Flora, 3.p. tt! Millingtonia hortensis. Willd. 
3. p. 382. and Don’s, syst. 4. p, 229. Rox. Cor. 3 t. 214. 
A tree, with deeply cracked, spongy bark; Leaves about2 feet long, su- 
pra decompound; fiowers in large, cross armed, terminal panic’es; pure 
white, and very fragrant. Tube of the corolla long and slender.—Pod linear, 
thin. Inthe circle of trees on Bombay green. In gardens; not common. 
Flowers in Qctober and November. The foliage at distance bears some 
resemblance to that of the Neem tree. 
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915. B. Rapicans. Willd. 3. p. 301. Tecoma radicans, Sprengel’s sysé. 2. 
p. 834. Don’s. syst. 4. p. 225 Bot. Mag. t. 485. Moris. Hist. 3. f. 15. t. Sef te 
B. fraxini foliis. Catesby’s Carolina. 1. ¢. 63. ; 
The rooting or ash leaved, ‘Trumpet flower. A very beautiful climber, 
with pinnate leaves; leafets gashed;—stem with rooting joints, by which it ad= 
heres to walls &c, like Ivy;—flowers in large bunches at the end of the 
shoots; of a scarlet orange colour. 
946. B. Srans. Willd. 3. p. 302. Tecoma stans. Sprengel’s syst. 2. p. 834. 
Don’s. syst. 4. p. 224. Bot. Mag. t. 3191, 
A tall shrub, wiih somewhat 4 square branches; leaves pinnate; leafets 
deeply serrate; flowers yellow, very showy; streaked with red lines on the 
inside; appear in October and November. 
This elegant-looking plant is a native of South America and the West 
Indies; but now common in Bombay gardens, and of very easy culture. 
9417. B. Corti. Don’s. syst. 4. p. 221. Bot. Mag. ¢, 2817. 
A shrub, with unequally pinnated leaves: Flowers from the stem; red- 
dish, veined with yellow.—Parell garden. intd. from the Mauritius in 1837. 
948. 5B. Gissonil. G, 
A tree? growsin the thick jungle below Mahableshwur. Only a pod has 
yet been seen.—It is of a triangular shape. (Dr. Gibson.) 
All the species have beautiful flowers, and are well worthy of cultivation 
ag ornamental plants. Dr. Lindley says, the substance with which the In- 
dians of South America paint their bodies, is obtained by boiling the leaves 
of B. chica, a scandent species noticed by Humboldt aud Bonpland (see 
Lind. Nat. syst. of Bot. p. 237.) 
ORDER 94. PEDALINEE. Don’s. syst. 4. p. 2332. 
Tue O1L-Seep Tribe, Lind. Nat. syst. p. 235. 
463. SESAMUM. Lt. Didynamia Angiosperma. 
From the Egyptian name Semsem, (see Forskols Arabia. p. 118) Guert. 2. 
t. J11. Lam. ¢. 528. 
949. S. Onientate, Rox. Flora. 3- p- 100. Don’s. syst. 4. p. 234. S. 
indicum. Don’s. syst. 4. p. 234, Rumph. Amb. 5. t. 76. f. 1. Pluk. ¢. 109. f. 4. 
Bot. Mag. ¢. 1688. Digitalis orientalis, sesamum dicta, Burm. Zey. t. 38. f, 1. 
Ainslie. Mat. Ind. 2. p. 255. Schit Elu. Rheed. Mal. 9. ¢.54. Car. Elu. Rheed. 
M@\. 9: ¢, 55. 
Teel, Tul, or Gingelie—A very common plant springing up in uncultivated 
places and flowering towards the close of the rains. The flowers much 
resemble those of the English Fox Glove. (Digitalis purpurea.) 
Several varieties are commonly cultivated, for the sake of the oil obtain- 
ed from the seeds; and which is known by the name of Gingelie teel. 
