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Has.—In the tropial forests above Rangoon, and Tenasserim down to Tavoy. 
—Fl. Decr.-Jan.—s, 
_ HaB.—Frequent in the upper and lower mixed forests of the Pegu Yomah, 
rarely entering the savannah forest.—Fl.-Fr. C. §.—L—_S88.— Sis’ Al. 
RemaRxks.—Wood used for the cross-pieces of harrows, house-posts, ete. 
* & Woody climbers, often tendril-bearing. 
10. B. diphylla, Symes.—A large tendril-bearing, scandent 
shrub, all parts quite glabrous; leaves on a 4-1 in. lone petiole (the 
bristle seated on the back of the thickened apex), 2-foliolate down 
to the base ; leaflets unequally oval-oblong, more or less truncate at 
the base, rounded at the apex, sessile, 1-3 in. long, 5-6-nerved, thin 
coriaceous, glabrous, a little glaucous beneath ; flowers large, white, — 
on strong 1-2 in. long pedicels, forming a terminal robust glabrous 
raceme at the end of the branchlets; calyx glabrous, about an 
inch long or somewhat longer, the lobes in bud elongate-oblong, 
then linear-oblong and free to nearly one-half of their length, re- 
flexed, separating in an obliquely eut tube ; petals about } longer 
than the sepals, linear-lanceolate, tapering, undulate; stamens 10, 
all perfect ; ovary smooth; pods very flat, elongate-oblong, rather 
c seous, varying from 4 to 2 ft. in length by 1-24 im. broad, 
with somewhat thickened borders contracted in a 1-2 in. long stalk, 
transversely but thinly net-veined, glabrous, brown; seeds between 
ce partitions, oblong, slightly compressed, brown, smooth and 
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1—ss.— 
Hap.— Frequent in the dry forests of Ava and Prome—FI.R.S.; Fr.g— 
