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pules setaceous : peduncles leaf-opposed, usually 2-flowered: pedi= 
eels with 3 bracts at the base: calyx spathaceous, ovate, 5-tooth- 
ed: petals oval: stamens 10, all fertile and united at the base, 
ascending, upper ones gradually shorter: legume flat, lanceolate, 
5-6-seeded : flowers large, pale-sulphur. 
Coromandel. (Concans. Bengal. Assam. Flowering nearly 
all the year. 
(4) B. racemosa. (Lam. ) 
Ident. W.& A, prod. I. p. 295. ; ; 
. Syn. B. parviflora, Vahl. Dec. prod. IJ. p.514.—Roxb. fl. Ind, 
Il. p. 323. ag 
Spec. Cuar., A bushy tree with dark scabrous bark: branche 
lets drooping : leaves cordate at the base, glabrous above, villous or 
_pubescent below: leaflets roundish, united to about the middle, 3- 
nerved: racemes solitary, terminal or leaf-opposed, leafless, much 
longer than the leaves: calyx spathaceous, at length reflexed, 5+ 
toothed, pubescent or villous: petals linear-lanceolate, ascending, 
slightly hairy on the outside, upper ones gradually smaller: sta- 
mens.10, all fertile and united at the base, ascending, upper ones 
gradually shorter: filaments and anthers bearded with longish hairs : 
style wanting: stigma flat, sessile: legume linear, straightish or 
curved, woody and thick, many-seeded: flowers scattered, small, 
white. = : 
Mysore. Ghauts and hills of the Concans. Monghyr. FElow- 
ering In May and June. ; & 
(5) B.varizrcara. (Linn. ) 
Tdent. W.& A. prod. I. p. 296:—Dec. prod. H. p. 514.— 
Roxb. fl. Ind. II. p. 319. 
Syn. B. candida, Roxb. fl. Ind. If. p, 318. 
Engrav. Rheede Mal. I. t. 32. 
Seec. Cuar. Tree: leaves roundish, cordate at the base, young 
ones softly villous beneath: leaflets oval, obtuse, united far above 
the middle, nearly parallel, 5-nerved: racemes axillary and termi- 
nal: calyx spathaceoys, ovate, 5-toothed at the apex: petals ob- 
long, nearly sessile, the upper somewhat larger and on a longer. 
-elaw than the others: fertile stamens 5, with occasionally the rudi- 
ments of other abortive filaments, all shortly united at the base: 
Jegume, straight, linear, acuminated, compressed, §—12-seeded. 
Serampore. Peninsula. Assam. There are two varieties; one 
has 4 petals light-purple, the fifth deep-purple tinged with cream 
and red; the other has 4 petals white; the fifth somewhat sulphur 
within. The flowers appear from February to April, ; 
