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Butea. | LEGUMINOS®. 365 
Remarxs.—Wood white, rather light and rather strong. Little used besides 
for common house-building purposes. Yields a red, brittle, clear resin, a sort 
of gum-kino of commerce. Superior lac is found on the tree 
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velyety-tomentose ; corolla silky-pubescent outside, nearly 13 in 
long ; ovary tomentose; pod oblong, silvery silk-hairy, 3-4 in. 
long. 
Has.—Frequent in all mixed forests all over Burma from Pegu and Marta- 
ban down to’ Upper Tenasserim—Fl. March-Apr.; Fr. May-June.—l.—SS.= 
cw SiS. 
3. B. parviflora, Roxb. (Spatholobus Roxburghii, Bth.; Brand. 
For. Fl. 143 ; Hf. ind. Fl. ii. 193.) —Pouk-nway.—A large woody 
climber, leafless in H.S., the stem as thick as a man’s leg and much 
fluted, the younger parts appressed silk-hairy ; leaves pinnately _ 
3-foliolate, on a 2-3 in. long glabrescent petiole ; leaflets large, on 
a thick 2-3 lin. long petiolule, ovate to ovate-oblong, the lateral ones 
very unequally so, 5-6 in. long, apiculate to bluntish, almost coria- 
ceous, glabrous above, beneath densely and almost silvery puberu- 
lous; flowers small, white, on strong about a line long pedicels, 
usually by pairs, racemose, and forming larger or smaller greyish or 
yellowish tomentose panicles in the axils of the upper leaves or at 
the end of the branches; calyx more than 3 lin. long, minutely » 
- tawny or whitish tomentose, the lobes triangular-lanceolate ; corolla 
about 8 lin. long, glabrous; pods rusty or tawny tomentose, on 
nearly an in. long stalk, oblong, 3-4 in. long, the wing-like sterile 
part rounded and waved, the outer suture straight and thickened. 
— i ixed forests, especially the upper ones entering 
sins the pene eay aoe aon Generate. hag 7 | Martaban down to Tenas- 
serim.—Fl. Febr.-Apr.; Fr. D.S.—1. ands: lL. SS.=o. 
4. B. acuminata, Wall. (Spatholobus acuminatus, Bth.; H.f. 
Ind. Fi. ii. ak laree woody leaf-shedding climber, the stem 
as thick as an arm, the shoots slightly appressed pubescent ; leaves 
