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* Erect Jagek or shrubs. 
x Cal on aceo 
OF tamen 1 only, the rest sterile 
Young shoots pubescent leaves To ovary stalked ; tue 
u : - B. monandra. 
As former, pods sessile . . . ° ° en brachycarpa. 
oe. stamens 5. 
Shrub ; calyx $ an in. long . ° ° ’ ees - B. acuminata, 
Strub; eal only 3 in. long ° ° : ‘ . ° - B. polycarpa, 
Tree; calyx 4 an in. - B. variegata, 
CVC an "the 10 stamens fertile ; ; flowers § emosa, 
hering. 
© Stamens 10, > or more of them —: Calyx in 
ars angul. Flowers large and s 
Leaves glab 3 Somes white or purple, the broader petal pasa 
yellow at ‘bas . B. purpurea, - 
Leaves velvety ; lowers yellow, turning nge - B. elongata, 
DO he 10 stamens fertile; stigma peltate ; : flow- 
B, Malabarica, 
a * Woody georlhy often tendril- bearing. Calyx valvate 
n bud. 
x Leaves 2-foliolate ; all 10 stamens ee calyx angu- 
lar in bud - B. diphylila. 
X X Leaves more or less deeply 2-lobed. Calyx terete in 
b 
oO Ovary sr pod glabrous. Calyx-tube and style 
a ie vsialked: 
Bractlets very asia almost leafy . eee ee ee ee ee 
Ovary sessile. Flowers small, Rept levers: 
_ Lobes of ete rounded ; pedicels and calyx glabrous 
Lobes of leaves acuminate ; pedicels and calyx appressed silk-hairy z. pen 
irs and usually also the pod, villous, pubes-— 
t or puberulous. 
Pod and o sile, 
: a t Lobes of leaves acuminate to acute and blunt- 
ish; leaves glabrous. 
Racemes pangs Soneensn silk. aie airy; pedicels stout - B. macrostachya. 
Racemes corymb-like contracted, lak puberulous ; pedicels 
. B, ornata. 
t + Lobes of the tomentose or pubescent leaves 
All parts brown-tomentos or rea: — an inch be 4 
racemes elon . B. Vablii. 
- Pod and ovary stalked. 
ones ieee-es loured, i is _corymb-like racemes ; “ye shorter than 
ovary, ‘villous, thick Fes : 
Flowers a wus to yellow, i in short racemes ; style elongate P 
. B. ferruginea, 
Ovary d ‘labrous ; calyx-tube almost 
Q00 ay cn Ee ee bee Reve pare B. anguina. 
* Erect see or shrubs. 
1. B. monandra, Kz.—Swai-tan.—Probably an erect shrub or 
tree, the young shoots shortly pubescent ; leaves small, very like 
those of B. tomentosa, rotundate-oval, truncate at the base; ona 
shortly pubescent petiole }-lin. long, down to } 2-lobed, with the 
