364 LEGUMINOSZ. [ Butea. 
BUTEA, Roxb. 
Calyx ample, the teeth or lobes short, the 2 upper ones united 
in a broad entire or notched lip. Standard ovate to orbicular, acute 
or blunt, recurved, without appendages; wings oblique or falcate, 
free or adhering to the keel; keel much incurved, acute or blunt, 
as long or oe than the standard. Stamens diadelphous, the 
vexillary o ee; anthers conform. Ovary sessile or stalked, 
with 2 Sralee style elongate, incurved, beardless, the stigma ter- 
minal, minute or truncate. Pod almiost sessile or stalked, oblong 
or broadly linear, coriaceous, indehiscent, the lower atexla part 
wing-like dilated. Seed solitary, compressed, at or near the sum- 
mit of the pod.—Trees or woody climbers, with pinnately pata 
ate leaves. Stipules small, deciduous ; stipulets present. wers 
e or small, in racemes or panicles. ’ Bracts and bractlets He 2s 
deciduous. 
x =o —_— an inch long or a —_— pubescent. 
ndard more or less a 
oO seals paee shrub ; ‘ 3 3 . B. minor. 
O © Pod stalk 
Erect tree ; pedicels twice the length of the calyx F . « B. frondosa, 
Woody climber ; pedicels 3 times the pra of the calyx. . B. superba. 
xe Bo 4 in. long, white, glabrous. Keel 
rd more or less blunt. Climbers 
Leaves large, slivers silk- ae east pod stalked . . . B. parviflora. 
Leaves small, glabrous to the naked eye; pod sessile . ‘ . B. acuminata. 
1. B. frondosa, Roxb.; Hf. Ind. Fi ii. 194; Bedd. Sylv. 
Madr. t. 176; Brand. For. Fl. 142. —Pouk-pen. —A tree (30—50 
+6—10 +6—8), leafless during H.S., the young shoots silky pubes- 
cent ; leaves pinnately 3-foliolate, on a 3-4 in. long petiole, while 
young appressed greyish pubescent ; leaflets on a strong pubescent 
See petiolule 2 lin. long, the terminal one broadly obovate, 
the lateral ones unequally ovate, blunt or bluntish, mucronate, 3-5 
= long, entire, when full thn rigidly eharticavts; above glabrous 
or nearly so, beneath greyish puberulous or shortly and thinly to- 
mentose, the net-veination copious and strong; flowers large an and 
volta 14 in. long, silky pubescent ; penny Tvl i us; pods ‘oblong, 
often a little falcate, appressed silvery iment! 3-4 in. long, 
= or nearly so, on ‘} an in. long stalk. 
_ Hap—Common i in Pas | beef shedding Seat, especially in the 
savannah 
» all over Burma fro: soy tees down to Tenas- 
eee Fr. Apeday LS : 
