1 1 6 Leguminosce. 



campanulate with 5 segm., pet. 5 ; stam. 10 (3 in B. anguind), 



distinct ; ov. stalked ; pod dehiscent or indehiscent, linear, 



many-seeded; seed with endosperm. — Sp. 130; 36 in FL B. 



Ind. 



The simple bilobed leaf is obviously a pair of connate lflts. 

 Trees or shrubs. 



Fl. large, bright yellow 1. B. TOMENTOSA. 



Fl. small, nearly white 2. B. RACEMOSA. 



Woody climber ; fl. minute 3. B. ANGUINA. 



t. B. tomentosa, L. Sp. PI. 375 (1753). Petan, XLaha-petan, 

 S. Tiruvatti, T. 



Burm. Thes. 44. Fl. Zeyl. n. 147. Moon Cat. 33. Thw. Enum. 98. 

 C. P. 1498. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 275. Burm. Thes. t. 18 (poor); Bot. Mag. t. 5560. 



A large erect bush with slender branches, bark yellowish- 

 grey longitudinally furrowed; 1. I5-3 in., conduplicate, deflexed 

 on petiole, divided more than \ down into 2 oval rounded 

 lobes with a setaceous mucro between, truncate at base, 

 glabrous above, densely pubescent and whitish beneath, 7- 

 nerved from the base, petiole f-f in., thickened at both ends ; 

 fl. large, nodding, over 2 in., ped short, stout, racemes small, 

 terminal, bracts linear; cal. about 1 in., bifid at top, pubescent, 

 pet. very much imbricated, broad, obovate, rounded, very 

 shortly clawed ; style long, stigma terminal, peltate, pod 

 4-6 in. by f in. wide, shortly stalked, narrowed to base, pointed, 

 finely pubescent, 8-12-seeded, dehiscent ; seed \ in., ovoid, 

 shining. 



Dry region; very common. Fl. Jan., Feb., August; sulphur-yellow, 

 the upper pet. with a dark-purple blotch at base. 



Throughout India and Malaya, and in China and Tropical Africa. 



Heart-wood hard, very tough, shining, dark red, moderately heavy, 

 an excellent wood, but too small to be of much value. The colouring of 

 the fl. is precisely that of several species of Hibisacs ; the petals never 

 spread, but remain imbricated, forming a deep bell-shaped corolla, which 

 is very conspicuous. 



\B. acn?ni7iata, L., is given for Ceylon in Fl. B. Ind. It is, however, 

 only known here in gardens, where it is an old introduction; there are 

 specimens in Hermann's Herb., and he gives (Mus. 8) the native name 

 ' Mayila ' for them, which rightly belongs to the next.] 



2. B. racemosa, Lam. Ency. Meth. i. 390 (1783), (non Vahl). 

 Mayila, 5. Atti, T. 



B. parviflora, Vahl, Moon Cat. ^. Piliostigma racemosiim, Benth., 

 Thw. Enum. 98. C. P. 1497. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 276. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 182. 



A small tree with a thick knotted trunk, much branched, 

 bark blackish, very rough and much furrowed ; 1. small, con- 



